Former Concacaf executive Mel Brennan reflects on the corruption scandal that led to the 2015 indictments of senior Fifa and Concacaf officials, arguing that football can outlast its most compromised leaders. In an interview accompanying his book, *Fixing Football*, he says the scandal exposed longstanding failures of accountability and that football governance remains insufficiently transparent.

Brennan says he had been in intermittent contact with the FBI before the 2015 raids in Zurich and Miami, so he expected action was developing, although he doubted officials would face consequences. He describes former Concacaf president Jack Warner and general secretary Chuck Blazer as opportunists protected by elite connections, and says Concacaf’s comparatively weak administration made its wrongdoing easier for investigators to uncover; Blazer later became an undercover informant in 2011.