Who is connected to whom
There is no single network diagram of this record, and there deliberately never will be. A map that joined everything to everything would make separate matters look like one mechanism — which is the opposite of what the evidence supports. What follows is five curated scenes, each drawn only from connections that carry a source.
Each connection is drawn according to what the record can actually bear: a solid line for a documentary relationship, a dashed line for one that is reported or unverified, and a dotted line for circumstantial connection or professional overlap. Every connection is also listed in words, with the source records it rests on. On a narrow screen the diagram is replaced by that list — nothing here requires pinching or panning.
Financial structures are mapped separately, in more detail, under financial flows.
FIFA / CONMEBOL / AFA governance
The reporting lines between the world body, the confederations and the national associations, plus the officials who held each post and when. Every line here is a governance or employment relationship on the public record.
What this scene does not say. A governance line is a reporting relationship, not an allegation. Holding an office says nothing about conduct in it. The U.S. Soccer intermediary between Concacaf and MLS is not separately represented as an entity.
On a narrow screen this scene is presented as a stacked list rather than a zoomable diagram, so nothing here requires pinching or panning. The list below is complete: it carries every connection, its evidence class and its source records.
How to read the connections
- Documentary
- Established by a document in the record.
Connections in this scene (18)
The complete, navigable record of the scene. Every connection links the entities it joins and the source records it rests on.
FIFA → CONMEBOL (South American confederation)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)FIFA → UEFA (European confederation)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)FIFA → Concacaf (North/Central American confederation)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)CONMEBOLtoAsociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA)
CONMEBOL → AFA (member association)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (2)UEFAtoReal Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF)
UEFA → RFEF (member association)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)Real Federación Española de Fútbol (RFEF)toRFEF Comité Técnico de Árbitros (CTA)
RFEF → CTA (refereeing committee)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)ConcacaftoMajor League Soccer (MLS)
Concacaf → MLS (via U.S. Soccer, not separately mapped)
GovernanceDocumentary
The U.S. Soccer intermediary in this governance line is not separately represented as an entity.
Sources (1)Major League Soccer (MLS)toInter Miami CF
MLS → Inter Miami CF (member club)
GovernanceDocumentary
Sources (1)FIFAtoAFA Comité de Regularización (Normalising Committee)
FIFA installed the AFA Normalising Committee (2016)
GovernanceDocumentary2016-07-18–present or unspecified
FIFA (with CONMEBOL) installed the committee over AFA; during 26 June–12 August 2016 AFA had no elected president.
Sources (1)CONMEBOLtoAFA Comité de Regularización (Normalising Committee)
CONMEBOL co-installed the AFA Normalising Committee (2016)
GovernanceDocumentary2016-07-18–present or unspecified
Sources (1)Armando PéreztoAFA Comité de Regularización (Normalising Committee)
Armando Pérez — chairman of the Normalising Committee
EmploymentDocumentary2016-07-18–2017
Sources (1)Edgardo 'Patón' BauzatoAsociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA)
Bauza — Argentina head coach (2016)
EmploymentDocumentary2016-08-05–2017-04-10
Sources (1)Claudio Fabián 'Chiqui' TapiatoAsociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA)
Tapia — AFA president from 2017-03-29
GovernanceDocumentary2017-03-29–present or unspecified
Sources (1)Luis SeguratoAsociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA)
Segura — interim AFA president to 2016
GovernanceDocumentaryunknown–2016-06-27
Sources (1)Julio Humberto GrondonatoAsociación del Fútbol Argentino (AFA)
Grondona — AFA president 1979–2014
GovernanceDocumentary1979–2014
Sources (1)Grondona — FIFA ExCo / Finance Committee
GovernanceDocumentary1988–2014
FIFA Executive Committee and Finance Committee roles. He was never charged and never named by the DOJ (§26.2).
Sources (1)Infantino — FIFA president
EmploymentDocumentary2016-02-26–present or unspecified
Sources (1)Domínguez — CONMEBOL president
EmploymentDocumentary2016-01-26–present or unspecified
Sources (1)