Red card : how the U.S. blew the whistle on the world's biggest sports scandal
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Nonfiction - Adult Books
796.334 BEN
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796.334 BEN
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Published
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 9.7, 21 Points
Level 9.7, 21 Points
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-336) and index.
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Booklist,,May 01, 2018
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Publishers Weekly,,April 30, 2018
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Kirkus Reviews,,April 15, 2018
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Library Journal,,May 15, 2018
Description
Red Card , Ken Bensinger 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. Arriving just in time for the 2018 World Cup, Red Card goes beyond the headlines to bring the real story to light, accompanying the determined American prosecutors and special agents who uncovered what proved to be not only the biggest scandal in sports history, but one of the biggest international corruption cases ever. And it is far from over.
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