Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal Audiobook (Free)

The definitive, shocking account from the FIFA scandal—the largest corruption case of recent years—involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every facet of the world’s most popular sport, soccer, including the World Cup is “an engrossing and jaw-dropping tale of international intrigue…A riveting book” (THE BRAND NEW York Times).

The FIFA case began small, boosted by an IRS agent’s review of an American soccer official’s tax returns. But that humble analysis eventually resulted in an enormous about Red Credit card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal worldwide problem scandal that crossed continents and reached the best degrees of the soccer’s globe governing body in Switzerland.

“The meeting of American investigative reporting and real-life cop show” (The Financial Times), Ken Bensinger’s Red Credit card explores the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid details. There’s Chuck Blazer, a high-living soccer dad who ascended to the best ranks of the activity while creaming millions from its coffers; Jack Warner, a Trinidadian soccer recognized whose lust for power was matched up only by his boundless greed; and the sport’s most effective man, FIFA leader Sepp Blatter, who held to his placement no matter what even while soccer rotted from the within out.

Extremely, this corruption been around for decades before American police started to secretly dig, finally revealing that nearly every aspect of the planet’s favorite sport was corrupted simply by bribes, kickbacks, scams, and cash laundering. Not the World Cup, the most-watched sporting event ever sold, was safe from the thick internet of problem, as effective FIFA officials extracted their bribes at every turn. “A gripping white-collar crime thriller that, in its scope and human theatre, ranks with some of the best investigative business books of the past thirty years” (The Wall structure Street Journal), Red Card will go beyond the headlines to bring the real tale to light.