As the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/topics/subject/world-cup">World Cup begins this week</a>, we bring you a two-part Sunday special charting how FIFA built the World Cup into a global phenomenon and how it became marred in scandal and corruption. In Part 1, WSJ soccer experts <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/jonathan-clegg">Jonathan Clegg</a> and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/joshua-robinson">Joshua Robinson</a> go back to the World Cup’s origins — how it grew from a small tournament in Uruguay into a massive empire. And how an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/six-soccer-officials-arrested-in-fifa-corruption-investigation-1432710956">prompted a moment for reckoning</a> for FIFA. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/ryan-knutson">Ryan Knutson</a> hosts.
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