Las Vegas’ Mob Museum is set to get a new football-related attraction.
The US national museum of organised crime have announced that they will be opening an exhibit based on the recent Fifa scandals.
The exhibit’s name will be the wonderfully sensational, The “Beautiful Game” Turns Ugly. The Museum outlined the idea behind the exhibit on its official website.
The display provides an incisive and eye-opening look into the rampant corruption that plagues the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the organization that runs international soccer. Through photographs, media clippings and cover stories and expository narrative, the Museum’s new FIFA exhibit gives a breakdown of the kickbacks, secrecy and match-fixing associated with the scandal.
The museum’s executive director, Jonathan Ullman, explained that they were thrilled that Fifa’s corruptions will become a part of the museum.
This exhibit is ripped right from today’s headlines about the globe’s most popular sport. 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.
Hat-tip to the Guardian
