Foul!: The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket ScandalsAndrew Jennings, an award-winning investigative sports reporter, spent four years delving into the dark side of 'the beautiful game'. The result is this explosive and damning exposè of the officials that run football's world governing body, FIFA - a story of how the men in suits put personal ambition and money before the fans on the terraces. No individual has managed to penetrate the secret world of FIFA. Until now. Andrew Jennings, the world's leading sports investigative reporter, has unearthed the stories that FIFA doesn't want told. He blows the whistle on an international cash-for-contracts scandal and reveals how some football officials have been urged to secretly repay the sweeteners they received. He asks why FIFA President delayed acting against troubled marketing company ISL, who wrongly withheld £45 million of FIFA's cash. He exposes the vote-rigging that went on behind closed doors in the fight for control of FIFA . Jennings has researched in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. He has uncovered damning evidence and persuaded FIFA insiders to talk to him about the questionable business practices they've witnessed. Foul!'s mix of world-class probing journalism, compelling story-telling and dark humour make this the most important book ever written about the men who control the people's game. |
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... Finance director Urs Linsi urgently negotiated a whopping great loan of 300 million francs from the Credit Suisse bank . It wasn't hard to get and at a cheap rate . FIFA had excellent security in the dozen or more marketing agreements ...
... Finance director Urs Linsi urgently negotiated a whopping great loan of 300 million francs from the Credit Suisse bank . It wasn't hard to get and at a cheap rate . FIFA had excellent security in the dozen or more marketing agreements ...
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... financial consequences of 11 September 2001. ' As they approached the extraordinary meeting , scheduled to begin on the evening of Thursday 7 March 2002 , the finance committee read a draft of the audit report being prepared for the ...
... financial consequences of 11 September 2001. ' As they approached the extraordinary meeting , scheduled to begin on the evening of Thursday 7 March 2002 , the finance committee read a draft of the audit report being prepared for the ...
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... finance team met privately with the new seven - member Internal Audit Committee that replaced the one he had disbanded a whole year before . He reminded them that the Zurich prosecutor had declined to take action over allegations made ...
... finance team met privately with the new seven - member Internal Audit Committee that replaced the one he had disbanded a whole year before . He reminded them that the Zurich prosecutor had declined to take action over allegations made ...
Contents
SEPP BLATTER MADE BY ADIDAS | 19 |
SEPP MAKES HIS MOVE ON HAVELANGE | 32 |
DASSLERS BOYS LOSE THE OLYMPICS | 48 |
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