FIFA: This is a 'good day' for the organisation

FIFA spokesman Walter De Gregorio believes Wednesday morning's arrest of several senior FIFA officials on racketeering and corruption charges is an opportunity to clean up the football governing body.

"This for FIFA is good," De Gregorio said in a news conference from Zurich."It's not good in terms of image, it's not good in terms of reputation, but in terms of cleaning up, everything we did in the last four years, this is good."

The organisation is facing two separate criminal investigations: One from the Swiss Attorney General regarding the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the other from the US Department of Justice, which resulted in the arrest of FIFA officials in Zurich.

In a statement, the US Department of Justice accused the officials of a "24-year scheme to enrich themselves through the corruption of international soccer."

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