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The Ugly Game
Heidi Blake
Jonathan Calvert
其他書名
The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2015-04-23
主題
Sports & Recreation / General
ISBN
1471149366
9781471149368
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oFW6BQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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THE STORY THAT BROUGHT DOWN FIFA'S SEPP BLATTER.
'With every page of this book, we see just why FIFA desperately needs a complete overhaul' -
Sun
When FIFA awarded the tiny desert state of
Qatar
the rights to host the
2022 World Cup
, the news was greeted with
disbelief and allegations of corruption
. How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and searing summer temperatures of 50C beaten more established countries with stronger bids? The story behind the Qatari success soon developed into one of the
greatest sporting scandals of our time
.
And when the
Sunday Times
Insight team received a cache of hundreds of millions of documents from a whistleblower, the contents of the FIFA Files became a
global sensation
, unearthing the corruption that lay at the heart of the bidding process.
Now in this remarkable new book by the
Sunday Times
journalists at the centre of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes the
most comprehensive account
yet of what happened and who was involved. Above all, it explains why, despite all the evidence, FIFA continues to support Qatar - even to the extent of publishing an edited and abbreviated report into the process that was immediately denounced by its original author. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year,
The Ugly Game
is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of our times.
'Never before has bribe-giving been documented in such graphic detail' -
Independent