By now, everybody knows how I feel about soccer in general and the World Cup in particular. I'm not a huge fan of either.

However, I do realize that there are other people in this world for whom soccer is very important and recent events have brought me to a point that I never thought I'd reach. I actually have an idea to make the whole soccer thing better.

Let's have a revolution.

But first, let's review the story. FIFA, the governing body of soccer, was poised to award the World Cup in 2022. The United States was a favorite as well as a team effort from Spain and Portugal.

But FIFA, which stands for Federation International de Football, gave the games to Qatar.

Let's pause here just a moment or two. The entire country of Qatar has fewer people than about a dozen U.S. cities. The biggest city is Doha, which has 400,000, making it about three times smaller than the metropolitan Milwaukee area.

The fourth-biggest city is Oumm Salal, which has about 19,500 people. This is the fourth-largest city in the country. Shorewood has more than that.

Qatar has no transportation, no stadiums, nobody to come and watch the games, no hotels, no television to speak of and it's nine hours ahead of the United States. That means that if a game is starting at noon in Qatar, it's 3 a.m. at the Nomad Pub on Brady Street. Qatar has nothing but sheiks with lots of money.

The United States, on the other hand, could stage the World Cup next year without building a damn thing. And we'd pay a fortune for the TV rights.

It is obvious that one of two things have happened. Either FIFA has lost its mind or it's so corrupt that it's impossible to make a reasonable decision.

So here's my solution. Let's have the United States lead a secession from FIFA and establish a new world-wide soccer association. I'm not kidding. There are lots of countries that feel like FIFA has kicked sand in their face (for which they will probably assess a penalty kick).

We could probably get England and most of the European teams to join. The African teams are on the outs and probably wouldn't get another tournament until 2080 or something, so we could probably drag them along. Then all the countries to which we provide lots of aid, financial and otherwise, could be persuaded to join.

Neither Russia, Brazil or Qatar would come along because they have already been awarded games. Although if it looks like the revolt is going to be successful, Russia might join. They know about revolutions with momentum.

I think Canada and some of the South American countries would join and all of the "-stans," with the exception of Afghanistan because they don't really like us all that much. Australia is an easy one. We could get China and the entire Asian continent easily because they might have some influence in the new association, unlike now where FIFA ignores the biggest country in the world.

I'm not kidding about this. I mean Barack Obama has lots of trouble getting any kind of success. He should name a soccer czar and start the revolution now.

I think all of those people who thought the World Cup was the greatest thing since the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue ought to get off their butts and start a campaign to get this thing done. This is put up or shut up time, blokes.