“It’s frustration,” says World Cup general secretary Hassan Al Thawadi, with a straight face, when confronted with longstanding accusations by whistleblower Phaedra Almajid that Qatar’s bid campaign in a hotel in Angola bribed Issa Hayatou, Jacques Anouma and Amos Adamu, three powerful soccer officials, to land the hosting rights to the 2022 World Cup. “They are inherently false and there are facts on the ground that prove they are false.”FIFA Uncovered Season 1 Download
It’s one of the most dramatic moments in ‘FIFA Uncovered’, Netflix’sNFLX -3.5% newly released docu-series that focuses on the corruption that led to the FifaGate scandal and the downfall of Joseph Blatter, FIFA’s modern godfather. Al Thawadi even produces crocodile tears when he explains his ‘bout of depression’ after FIFA awarded Qatar with the hosting rights in 2010 and the Gulf nation faced a barrage of criticism. It was just the beginning: the outrage shifted from allegations of corruption to Qatar’s lamentable treatment of migrant workers – and the criticism has never stopped. Al Thawadi counters the accusations of vote-buying: “Gas is what we build our future on, we are not going to use it to buy a World Cup vote.”The docu-series explains FIFA’s history of corruption in a comprehensive fashion for a global audience – and does so with verve. Ricardo Teixeira, Jerome Valcke and Mohammed Bin Hammam are among those whose interviews enrichen the story, often brilliantly told by investigative journalists Ken Bensinger, from the US, and David Conn, from England. From Joao Havelange to Chuck Blazer, the entire cast of villains that misappropriated the global game, feature. Havelange transformed FIFA from an amateur federation to a global, capitalist business. Blazer was the epitome of the Blatter-era official, obsessed with self-enrichment, acting from a position of absolute insulation, but the chickens came home to roost on that infamous 27th of May 2015.
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