Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: Bücherei der Raritäten	Standorte: VS.SFO FS.E Conn / Fußballbibliothek	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

Contents

 

The People's Game

Fifa's Smiley Face

1904: 'A Pure Sport'

1974

1998: President Blatter

2010: 'And the Host of the 2022 World Cup Will Be ... Qatar!' (1)

'Crisis? What is a Crisis?'

Straight Citizens

The Dr Joao Havelange Centre of Excellence

Bribery in Switzerland is not a Crime

The Dirty Linen

'Tell Me What You Did'

Mr President Integrity

The World Cup of Fraud

Le roi se Meurt

'The Money of Fifa is Your Money!'

Say it Ain't So, Franz

Tainted History

'And the Host of the 2022 World Cup Will Be ... Qatar!' (2)

The Boss

 

When Sepp Blatter joined Fifa in 1975 it had just twelve employees. Forty years later, the FBI have accused 14 executives of 47 counts of money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion linked to alleged kickbacks totalling more than $150m. Football has become the premier global sport, a television and commercial powerhouse, while Fifa, the organisation which runs it, turned bad. The crumbling of Fifa and the shock resignation of Blatter days after his re-election in June 2015 is the most spectacular story of corruption sport has ever seen. There are international investigations into alleged bribery and fraud committed by some of Fifas top executives, and the deeply murky vote surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar is under sharp scrutiny, with criminal investigations under way in the US and Switzerland. This is a story of globalisation, of the changing geography of wealth and power, of how a most beloved of sports could be so rotten at the top. David Conn is writing the definitive account of Fifas rise and fall, the key, larger-than-life personalities and power-brokers responsible for it, told with a love of football's history and the context to make sense of it all. Covering the events of the next eighteen months including the FBIs investigation, the consequences for Blatter, enquiries into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, who takes over the presidency and their agenda it promises to be a fascinating account. (Verlagstext)