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

Informationen zum Autor Ken Bensinger is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an award-winning investigative reporter for Buzzfeed News. He is based in Los Angeles.Find him on Twitter @kenbensinger Zusammenfassung WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS AWARD FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019The 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 will be a major film! produced by Pearl Street Films! the production company owned by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Bensinger
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2018
• EAN: 9781788160629
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-062-9
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 233 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book