Red Card: FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports

Author(s): Ken Bensinger

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'Spellbinding. A gripping account of how the beautiful game got grotesquely ugly. Highly recommended.' Gary Lineker'Gripping...Bensinger's impeccably sourced account serves as a sharp reminder of the gargantuan levels of largesse and excess during Fifa's bad, bad days - as well as a warning that not enough has been done to prevent them returning.' Sean Ingle, Guardian'Bensinger deftly deploys novelistic devices to turn it into a real-life detective thriller...[it] resembles John Grisham' Private EyeThe story of FIFA's fall from grace has it all: power, betrayal, revenge, sports stars, hustlers, corruption, sex and phenomenal quantities of money, all set against exotic locales stretching from Caribbean beaches to the formal staterooms of the Kremlin and the sun-blasted streets of Doha, Qatar. In Red Card, investigative journalist Ken Bensinger takes a journey to FIFA's dark heart. He introduces the flamboyant villains of the piece - the FIFA kingpins who flaunted their wealth in private jets and New York's grandest skyscrapers - and the dogged team of American FBI and IRS agents, headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who finally brought them to book. Providing fresh insights on a scandal which has gripped the world, he shows how greed and arrogance brought down the most powerful institution in sporting history. A wild, gritty, gripping, and at times blackly comic story, Red Card combines world-class journalism with the pace of a thriller. Red Card (filmed as Houses of Deceit) will be a major film, produced by Pearl Street Films, the production company owned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

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You don't need to know a lot about football to love this book. It's a riveting true crime story about unbelievable corruption and the people who finally exposed it. The book is packed with a lot more drama than many football games I've watched.

Alicia, The Book Grocer

General Fields

  • : 9781788160629
  • : Profile Books Limited
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : June 2018
  • : ---length:- '23.4'width:- '15.3'units:- Centimeters
  • : March 2022
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ken Bensinger
  • : Paperback
  • : 718
  • : English
  • : 796.334
  • : 320