The US Court of Justice says prosecutors and courts may have gone too far in prosecuting soccer-related crimes. Two sentences from the FIFA complex have already been annulled.

TOWhen the image taken at the back exit of one of the most expensive hotels in Zurich in the early morning of May 27, 2015 went around the world, no one could imagine how great its symbolic content would be. He showed little, apart from the zealous staff of the posh lodge shielding the arrest of prominent sports officials from the view of interested observers with a sheet held aloft.

The public learned who the seven people detained by the Swiss police were hours later, at a press conference in distant New York, United States. Among them was Jeremy Webb, then vice-president of the International Football Association (FIFA). The man that the Swiss Sepp Blatter, then president of FIFA, had proposed as his successor.