Bonita Mersiades

Whatever It Takes (eBook, ePUB)

The Inside Story of the FIFA Way

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the 2022 World Cup nears, this book has lost none of its relevance or power. It remains the only book written by an insider about the corrupt 2018/2022 World Cup bidding process.

In the years since the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, many fine legal minds, investigators, journalists and others have attempted to find out just how Russia, and especially Qatar, managed to pull it off.

As with almost everything to do with the entire World Cup bidding process conducted by FIFA, there is even more to the story than merely about how two nations won. Much more.

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's the inside story of a losing bid team and the characters around it. It's the inside story of how the 'FIFA Way' - as former US Attorney-General Loretta Lynch referred to it - 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Powderhouse Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925914672
• Artikelnr.: 66301406

Autorenporträt

Bonita Mersiades was one of the first people in the world to speak out about the environment and culture within which world football and FIFA operated in the context of the 2018/2022 World Cup bidding contest. Bonita is known as a 'FIFA whistleblower', and advocated globally for independent governance reform of world football administration long before the famous 2015 FIFA arrests in Zurich. Her book, 'Whatever It Takes - The Inside Story of the FIFA Way' is the only insider account of these times. Bonita has been active in football for a lifetime as a volunteer, and professionally with a national league club, state federation, as team operations manager for the men's national team, the Socceroos, and as head of corporate and public affairs for Football Australia which included working on Australia's 2018/2022 Bid.Bonita is the founder and publisher of Fair Play Publishing and the Football Writers Festival. She is Chairman of NBCCC.org.au, a local cancer charity, and Women in Football, and is a Board member of West Phil, the Western Sydney Philharmonic. She writes about football occasionally at her blog, bonitamersiades.com.au.