Description - Whatever It Takes - the Inside Story of the FIFA Way (Second Edition) by Bonita Mersiades
Ever since Russia and Qatar were announced on 2 December 2010 by FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, as the winners of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments respectively, many fine legal minds, investigators, journalists, and others have attempted to find out just how both countries pulled off a victory.
But as with almost everything to do with the World Cup bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, there is even more to the story than merely how two nations won.
This book lifts the lid on how a bid for the greatest show on earth, the FIFA World Cup, works from the inside – an inside that involves what is now known as the murky, corrupt goings-on of world football administration. As US Senator Richard Blumenthal said, comparing FIFA to the mafia “is almost insulting to the mafia”.
It is the inside story of a losing bid team and the characters around it. It’s the inside story of how the ‘FIFA Way’ works. And it shows that when it comes to the greatest prize in world football, some people will do whatever it takes.
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