The FIFA Swamp

Bribe, Swindle or Steal

Alexandra Addison-Wrage of TRACE International

Business, News, Business News

4.9 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated discusses how decades of FIFA corruption and self-dealing have undermined the world's favorite sport.

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0:00.0	This is Alexandra Rogge. Welcome back to the podcast. Today we're going to talk about FIFA.
0:11.7	Based in Zurich, FIFA is the association that governs the world's most popular sport, soccer.
0:16.5	We're talking about it today because of more than a decade of outrageous corruption and unashamed
0:21.1	self-dealing. I was a member of FIFA's failed independent governance committee, so I can say
0:26.0	this with some confidence. My guest is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, a major contributor
0:31.2	to Fox Sports, and the author of the Beckham experiment, the first soccer book to become
0:35.4	a New York Times bestseller. When he came to Trace's offices for an interview a couple of years ago, several of my sports
0:41.6	fan colleagues loitered in the hallways to have a chance to meet him.
0:45.0	Grant Wall, thanks so much for joining me.
0:47.3	Do you think I've already shown my hand when it comes to my opinion of FIFA?
0:51.9	I think you have every right based on all of your experience.
0:55.5	This is a financial crime podcast.
0:58.3	So we're going to have some people listening who are not very familiar with FIFA,
1:02.3	although it's been in the news a lot lately in no small part because of your writing.
1:06.5	So can you help people understand?
1:08.7	Just give us a primer on FIFA.
1:10.2	How is it organized and what does it do?
1:12.1	Why do we need a FIFA?
1:13.2	Well, FIFA is the world governing body for soccer,
1:16.7	the world's most popular sport.
1:18.6	And it's made up of 211 now federations,
1:23.2	national member associations from around the world.
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