Red Card: How the US Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
✍ Scribed by Bensinger, Ken
- Book ID
- 110466526
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 998 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501133909
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal—the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup.
The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. But that humble investigation eventually led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccer's world governing body in Switzerland.
In Red Card, Ken Bensinger explores the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail. There's Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer dad who ascended to the highest ranks of the sport while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer official whose lust for power was matched only by his boundless greed; and the sport's most powerful man,...