The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to

The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup

â€œThe book that reminds you exactly whatâ€™s wrong with FIFAâ€ (Esquire UK): This meticulously reported account by two award-winning, investigative journalists at Britainâ€™s The Sunday Times explains how the 2022 World Cup was secured for Qatarâ€”a key element in the ongoing, international FIFA controversy.

When the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with shock and disbelief. How had a country with almost no soccer infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk, and searing summer temperatures, beaten more established countries with stronger bids? The story behind the Qatari success soon developed into a global news sensation.

In 2014 The Sunday Times Insight team in the UK spilled the secrets of a bombshell cache of hundreds of millions of secret documents, which were leaked by a whistleblower. In forensic detail, they reported how Mohamed Bin Hammam, Qatarâ€™s top soccer official, used his position to help secure the votes that Qatar needed to win the bid. The investigative team spent three months painstakingly piecing together Bin Hammamâ€™s activities and reporting on cash handouts, lavish junkets, and evidence of payments to soccer officials around the world.

Now in this remarkable book by The Sunday Times journalists at the center of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes a comprehensive account of what happened and who was involved. A bestseller in the UK, The Ugly Game is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of recent times.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2015-08-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501131493

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2015-08-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501131493

The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup

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