Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal
(eAudiobook)
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal-the biggest corruption case of recent years-involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including 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. Ken Bensinger's Red Card 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, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who held on to his position at any cost even as soccer rotted from the inside out. Remarkably, this corruption existed for decades before American law enforcement officials began to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every aspect of the planet's favorite sport was corrupted by bribes, kickbacks, fraud, and money laundering. Not even the World Cup, the most-watched sporting event in history, was safe from the thick web of corruption, as powerful FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every turn.
Level 9.7, 21 Points
Notes
Bensinger, K., & Ross, J. T. (2018). Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Bensinger, Ken and Jonathan Todd, Ross. 2018. Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle On the World's Biggest Sports Scandal. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Bensinger, Ken and Jonathan Todd, Ross, Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle On the World's Biggest Sports Scandal. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Bensinger, Ken, and Jonathan Todd Ross. Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle On the World's Biggest Sports Scandal. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018.
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