num_pages: 315
description: What's wrong with Football today? In June 2011, Sepp Blatter was elected - uncontested - as president of Fifa once more. Despite attempts to halt the vote amidst allegations and accusations of corruption, the show went on. As "How They Stole The Game", David Yallop's classic expose of the dark heart behind the beautiful game showed when it was first published, Football was rotten from the top down. In the book, Yallop reveals the story of Joao Havelenge, Fifa President from 1974 to 1998, the Godfather of football, and how he turned a religion to millions of fans into a multi-billion dollar business, riven with suspicious deals and unexpected payments.
language: English
title: How They Stole the Game
titlecomplete: How They Stole the Game
genres: Sports, Football, Soccer, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 156
publisher: Poetic Publishing