THE EVENTS THAT TRANSPIRED YESTERDAY in Switzerland headquarters are surely satisfying to many soccer fans but also alarming at the same time. Most people have been somewhat aware of the corruption issues at FIFA for quite some time but now that the spotlight has been shined upon the mess, the difficult question is what to do about it?

Right now there are two separate investigations and both are significant. The Swiss are investigating the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The United States has brought bribery and corruption charges against FIFA executives.

FIFA, in its usual disappointing nature that only casts further doubt on the organization, has already stated that a re-vote on host nations for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments is not going to happen. Yet, the investigation is in its infancy and the evidence is still being examined. Why remove any options from the table at this early juncture? Logical minds can only assume that FIFA cannot take the World Cup hosting rights off the table because the officials have been bought and paid for.

The eyes of the world are now on soccer’s global governing body. Many people, myself included, just want to know the truth and the extent of the corruption within the organization. We want names, we want dollar amounts, we want to know frequency with which transactions for favors occurred, and we want to know how systematic the corruption was to its very core.

If the 2018 bids and 2022 bids were ill-gotten, who approached FIFA and how much money was exchanged?  Qatar’s bid didn’t even pass the laugh test with fictitious stadium technology and the hidden need for a winter World Cup that was not made clear on the outset. What were FIFA’s standards for bidding?

Finally, and most importantly, what did FIFA know about the abysmal human rights issues in Qatar— which had deadly consequences for both migrant workers and women?

Getting all of questions answered will require a ton of hard work from both investigators and prosecutors. Witnesses offer up incriminating evidence on other FIFA executives in exchange for reduced charges or even immunity. There is no telling where it will lead or if it will ever result in direct evidence against FIFA kingpin Sepp Blatter.

Beyond all of the legal and investigative work FIFA is an inherently flawed entity and fixing it will require a monumental effort. FIFA is a corrupt to its very core. If it were a country, it would be a failed state.

Even if all these investigations result in the removal of all current executives, including Blatter, there's a very strong likelihood that the new leadership team would be just as bad. FIFA is currently structured in such a manner that men like Blatter and Jack Warner, the CONCACAF chief who was arrested yesterday, inevitably rise to the top.

Many observers in Europe and the United States have thought of Blatter as a crook for years. That opinion, however, is far different in other parts of the globe.

Recently Trinidad & Tobago football association president Raymond Tim Kee hailed Blatter as the “father of football.” Dominican Republic federation chairman Osiris Guzman took things to a laughable extreme when he compared Blatter to Jesus, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, and Winston Churchill. Amid all the revelations, El Salvador’s federation announced yesterday that despite charges, the country would still support Blatter in the upcoming election.

Part of the explanation for such lunacy is FIFA’s one-member-one-vote policy, where each of FIFA’s 209 member associations holds one vote in electing its president and executive council members. It sounds well-intentioned on paper but that policy has morphed into dysfunctional system where Blatter is able to build a huge power base among smaller, poorer countries usually at the expense of nations that have great influence on the game.

Germany, Brazil, England, Spain, France, Argentina, and Italy are among the most powerful nations when it comes to soccer and most of the sport's global popularity derives from these nations or their domestic leagues. Despite that, fewer than a dozen smaller, developing nations can outvote these powerful soccer countries in FIFA elections. That creates an environment that is ripe for corruption because many impoverished countries can be bought off cheaply. Many suspect Blatter does just that.

The one-member-one-vote system must go and there needs to be a dramatic shift in FIFA so that the most influential nations in the sport are given far more decision-making power. The needs of these nations are just that much greater and their interests are much more likely to be aligned with the global interests of the sport.

At the same time FIFA should go out of its way to avoid a structure that creates a permanent underclass. England and Germany and Brazil should have more say than Bahrain and Anguilla and Nepal, but mechanisms need to be established that allow all voices to be heard. Similarly, periodic evaluations need to be put in place to ensure that emerging soccer nations are acknowledged and empowered for growing the game. Other issues, such as the makeup of the executive council, also must be weighted so that top federations have influence commensurate with their size and importance.

If FIFA can manage to reinvent its power structure, it becomes much easier to enact other important policies such as fairness, transparency, and even setting qualification standards for hosting a World Cup. Unless and until that happens, the entire organization will remain dysfunctional.

I have my doubts about whether meaningful change will come, but I hold out hope that the recent arrests will catalyze true reform. The United States wisely has taken the first steps to address FIFA's culture of corruption. Hopefully other powerful countries decide to join the push for a restructured FIFA.

The beautiful game deserves better than Blatter and his self-serving henchmen.

Brian Sciaretta is an American Soccer Now columnist and an ASN 100 panelist. Follow him on Twitter.