FOUL the secret world of fifa

Foul! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes,
Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandal

eBooks - Sports
MAY 21 2008

Andrew Jennings, the world's foremost investigative sports
reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'. The
result? This explosive and damning expose of football's world governing body FIFA-
a story of racketeering, bribe-taking, election-rigging, illicit trading, and dirty tricks.

No individual has managed to penetrate the sanctified domain of FIFA or to probe
successfully into its often criticised yet unproven corruption of the world game... Until
now.

Author Andrew Jennings will demonstrate how FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and his
army of supporters have misappropriated their positions at the head of the world
game in their desire for power, control, and a lucrative payoff . How did these bizarre
characters manage to take such control? Foul! has the story.

Jennings has undertaken unprecedented research in Asia, Africa, Europe and the
Americas, interviewing hundreds of officials and amassing an extraordinary library of
damning documents.

He tells how Blatter and his legion of cronies built an invincible electoral machine to
keep him in power forever. He revisits the 1970s and the privatisation of international
sport and its revenues by a close-knit group of officials and marketing agents
working for their own self-interest. And he brings the story up-to- date with new
disclosures about how Germany won the contest to stage the 2006 World Cup and
the inside account of the dirty battle to host 2010.

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Publisher: HarperSport (2 May 2006)
Author: Andrew Jennings

• Language English

• ISBN-10: 0007208111

• ISBN-1 3: 978-0007208111