Former soccer great Diego Maradona says that for years he has said FIFA was corrupt but that he wasn't taken seriously.

"I was treated like a crazy person," Maradona told radio station Radio La Red in Buenos Aires. "Now the FBI has told the truth."

"There is no soccer. There is no transparency. Enough lying to people and dinner parties to re-elect Blatter," he said, speaking about Friday's vote on whether FIFA President Sepp Blatter will get elected to a fifth term.

"The money spent on that should be used to give kids in Africa a soccer field," adding that "FIFA has billions of dollars and there are players in the world who don't make $150,000."