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The Fall of the House of Fifa

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Exposing Fifa's corruption - football's darkest narrative.

If you have even a passing interest in football or the politics swirling around global sports organizations, "The Fall of the House of Fifa" offers an explosive, detailed account of corruption that feels more like a thriller than a history lesson. David Conn's investigative prowess gives you a front-row seat to the scandalous downfalls and the machinations behind the World Cup and beyond. This read might change how you view international sports forever.

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The Fall of the House of Fifa

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ISBN: 9780224100458
Authors: David Conn
Publisher: Yellow Jersey Press
Date of Publication: 2018-07-24
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.58
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The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen. 1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress. A century later: 'Fifa is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise' - A judge in Brooklyn, using a term originally coined for the mafia. For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. Now David Conn, football's most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the extraordinary history and staggering scale of corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa - the power brokers, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview.
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Exposing Fifa's corruption - football's darkest narrative.

If you have even a passing interest in football or the politics swirling around global sports organizations, "The Fall of the House of Fifa" offers an explosive, detailed account of corruption that feels more like a thriller than a history lesson. David Conn's investigative prowess gives you a front-row seat to the scandalous downfalls and the machinations behind the World Cup and beyond. This read might change how you view international sports forever.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.