In the UK we tend to see this as a story about corruption and rigging of voting, contaminating an idea of clean sport and public duty. It is how the USA would also expect this to be seen.
I would bet that is not how this is seen elsewhere. What we construe as corruption is definitely normal practice elsewhere, for a start. Then sport is also not seen as a clean ideal, it is clearly understood to be an extension of politics, even a proxy warfare. The action of the USA can easily be recast as politically motivated, even racist. To us that may seem ridiculous, but I would bet that is actually how it plays in many smaller countries where FIFA has contributed massively to football, and national identity as a result.
Football is not really sport as we might wish to understand it, it is international corporatist business and nationalists politics expressed in a sports vehicle. We should be wary of confusing the vehicle with its passengers.
Back in the USA, I expect this also plays as evidence of the corrupted and decadent foreigners, and supports US exceptionalism at a time when it has been battered by events elsewhere.
This story is much more than it appears, it isn't nearly as simple as
