Red Card - Ken Bensinger
Category: Sport & Recreation
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Tags: Sport & Recreation
The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal - the biggest international corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by US investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the worlds most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agents review of an American soccer officials tax returns. But that humble investigation eventually led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccers world governing body in Switzerland. In Red Card, Ken Bensinger explores the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail. Theres 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 sports most powerful man, FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who he
