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The definitive, shocking account of the FIFA scandal - the biggest corruption case of recent years - involving dozens of countries and implicating nearly every aspect 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 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 investigation eventually led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels of the soccer's world governing body in Switzerland. "The meeting of American investigative reporting and real-life cop show" (The Financial Times) , Ken Bensinger's Red Card explores the case, and the personalities behind it, in vivid detail.