DirecTV, Fox Worked With FIFA Middlemen

American media companies, including DirecTV and 21st Century Fox, have had business relationships with the sports-marketing firms at the center of the corruption scandal that has rocked international soccer.

U.S. authorities late last month charged executives at the marketing firms, including Traffic Group and Torneos y Competencias, with paying or facilitating bribes to officials linked to FIFA, soccer’s governing body, to secure...