Confirmation of one of the worst scandals in football history appears to be sitting in plain sight, published last week on the website of FIFA, the sport’s global governing body. The admission exists in a couple of lines referencing three notorious former football officials, dropped casually into a long decision justifying the lifetime ban of one of them. FIFA cautions that people should not read too much into it. But it’s there, for the first time, posted publicly in an official FIFA document. Question: Which officials were to receive money for their votes in connection with the Qatar selection? Answer: Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz and Julio Grondona. As secrets go, it was not a well-kept one. Many journalists have published the accusation that bribery helped deliver the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Investigations have probed it. The U.S. Department of Justice built indictments based on it. But the one organization that would never bring itself to admit that bribes had been paid was FIFA itself. That was why it was jarring this week to see the mention of payments to three former top football officials – Brazil’s Teixeira, Paraguay’s Leoz and Argentina’s Grondona – as supporting evidence in a FIFA…