TMZ Sports spoke with Joe Horrigan -- government V.P. of the choice method for the professional soccer HOF -- World Health Organization tells USA there is nothing within the bylaws preventing a guilty criminal from being enshrined in Canton.
Horrigan says as long because the player has been out of the league for five years and has created a minimum of one All-Pro team ... that person is eligible.
That being same ... the Exec. V.P. says it's attainable voters can take Sharper's crimes under consideration once pick for the previous urban center Saints sensation -- however they are not alleged to.
FYI ... cheater contend fourteen seasons within the league and was a 6-time All-Pro ... wide thought-about one in all the simplest safeties of his era.
Sharper last contend in 2010 ... therefore he would be eligible as early as 2016.
Stay tuned ...