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

Bensinger, Ken

ISBN 10: 1781256713 / ISBN 13: 9781781256718

Published by Profile Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Card: FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781256713
• ISBN 13: 9781781256718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 640 grams

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Synopsis

The 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.