Somebody needs to tell François Carrard, the Swiss lawyer recently named to lead FIFA’s reform committee, that he should really stop being so annoyingly impartial and tell the public how he really feels.

In an interview published Sunday in the Swiss newspaper Le Matin — one of his first interviews since he was named to lead the reform committee — Carrard shared his thoughts on a number of topics that have hung in the air since United States prosecutors rudely interrupted FIFA’s longstanding dance with corruption and started arresting people. Among his most notable remarks to American ears was his questioning why Americans should even be involved in FIFA at all when football, baseball and basketball are so much more popular in the United States.

He said, in French, that soccer was not “a true American sport.”

“There, it’s just an ethnic sport for girls in schools,” he said.