that's how this investigation has got started and now here we are today with these unusually incredible charges against a very large organization that runs soccer around the world. >> evan why is the u.s. spearheading this? i know soccer is important in the united states but it's much bigger in europe and other places around the globe. >> reporter: that's a good question. we asked about this in december when we first previewed this investigation was heating up and the fbi was looking at bringing charges. the answer we got from officials is it looks like soccer is not able to police itself. they tried to do an internal investigation and came up that there was nothing wrong there. it became the responsibility of prosecutors to try to fix some of these corruption problems that people have been talking about in fifa for years and years. some of the alleged bribery took place inside the united states. some of the officials live here in the united states. and u.s. networks are some of