America’s national museum of organized crime is opening a Fifa exhibit in September.
The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas announced on Monday the opening of The ‘Beautiful Game’ Turns Ugly, a permanent display on world soccer’s governing body and the corruption scandal that’s engulfed it.
“This exhibit is ripped right from today’s headlines about the globe’s most popular sport,” Jonathan Ullman, the museum’s executive director said in a statement. “To our growing number of visitors from places like the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil and Italy, the Fifa scandal provides an especially resonant example of the different shapes organized crime can take.”
The exhibit, opening 1 September, will examine the “kickbacks, secrecy and match-fixing” associated with Fifa “through photographs, media clippings and cover stories and expository narrative.”
In May, Swiss authorities on behalf of the US Department of Justice arrested 14 officials, nine of whom were current or former Fifa executives, on charges including racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy in a dramatic early-morning raid in Zurich.
The Mob Museum, officially known the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, has attracted more than 800,000 visitors since opening in 2012.
