By David Conn
As magnificent global Cups captivated billions all over the world Fifa turned a advertisement magnet, funds pouring into its coffers. Its earnest foundations started to collapse as these entrusted with the game sought after their percentage.
For 40 years Joao Havelange after which Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - sunrise raids, FBI investigations, allegations of cash laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and robbery that now got here to outline the agency whose function is to foster overseas cooperation and nurture the spirit of this easy, attractive game.
David Conn, football's most useful investigative journalist, chronicles the extreme background and amazing scale of corruption, paints revealing photographs of the boys on the centre of Fifa - the facility agents, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and places the allegations to Blatter himself in a longer interview.
The Fall of the home of Fifa is the definitive tale of Fifa's upward thrust and the main excellent fall game has ever seen.
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