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Fifa was founded in 1904 to unite the football-playing world, its first congress stating that “no person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit.” A little over a century later, a judge in a Brooklyn courtroom called Fifa a “Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise,” a term originally coined for the mafia. For forty years, Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa plagued by scandal: dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. David Conn, football’s most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the organisation’s extraordinary history and the staggering scale of its corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa, including power brokers, the indicted and legends such as Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini, and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview. This is the definitive story of Fifa’s rise and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.
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Author: Conn David
Language: English
Publication date: July 9, 2018
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 328
ISBN/EAN: 9780224100458