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- 🇨🇦CA · Soccer#1515K to 30K
- 🇫🇷FR · Soccer#8810K to 30K
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Qatar 2022
Sep 1, 2022
44m 46s
Equal Footing
Aug 25, 2022
55m 35s
White Elephants
Aug 18, 2022
37m 26s
The World Cup of Shame, Part 2
Aug 11, 2022
38m 10s
The World Cup of Shame, Part 1
Aug 4, 2022
25m 24s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 9/1/22 | ![]() Qatar 2022 | How did this small, Middle Eastern autocracy, with no international soccer pedigree or modern stadium infrastructure, land the ultimate international sporting competition: the 2022 FIFA World Cup? Money. Lots of money.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 44m 46s | ||||||
| 8/25/22 | ![]() Equal Footing | Today’s episode is all about hope. The stunning success of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team offered FIFA a roadmap to a better way of doing business, one that promised soaring profits while embracing the organization’s core mission: to spread soccer and fair play around the globe. Instead, FIFA relegated the women’s game to second-class status even after seeing record crowds. In choosing to stick with its old corrupt ways, FIFA lost the one thing it cares about most: money. But women’s soccer still offers the last, best hope for a better FIFA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 55m 35s | ||||||
| 8/18/22 | ![]() White Elephants | FIFA’s appalling behavior in Chile and Argentina is ancient history…right? You’d think world soccer’s governing body would have learned its lessons and modernized by 2014, but you’d be wrong. In the soccer-mad nation of Brazil, FIFA was faced with a choice between profits and people, and FIFA did what it always does - it put profits first. Screw the consequences.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 37m 26s | ||||||
| 8/11/22 | ![]() The World Cup of Shame, Part 2 | After spending millions of dollars they didn’t have to build World Cup infrastructure, and disappearing anyone opposed to their lavish plans, Argentina’s military junta turns its eyes on an even bigger prize – a World Cup victory on its home soil in 1978. How far would General Videla and his henchmen go to win? And would FIFA ignore their blatant efforts to rig the World Cup?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 38m 10s | ||||||
| 8/4/22 | ![]() The World Cup of Shame, Part 1 | In 1978, FIFA faced a simple choice: Play the World Cup in a nation ruled by a brutal military dictatorship, or move the tournament to a country that better represented the global values of fair play at the heart of FIFA’s mission. FIFA chose to chase dollars rather than stand up for human rights. This is Argentina ‘78, the World Cup of Shame, Part 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 25m 24s | ||||||
| 7/28/22 | ![]() See No Evil | In this episode, you’ll hear how the Lords of Soccer abused their positions to prop up and promote a violent dictatorship in Chile, all in the name of profit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 28m 23s | ||||||
| 7/21/22 | ![]() The Era of Gold | The slow march toward corruption continues… When Brazilian businessman João Havelange took control of FIFA in 1974 it was still a modest operation, with six permanent staff and virtually nothing in the bank. By the time he retired in 1998, the soccer organization had $4 billion in the bank. But the man who built FIFA into a multi-billion dollar marketing machine would also be implicated in a string of scandals involving millions in bribes and kickbacks. Worse, Havelange had a nasty habit of cozying up to gangsters and dictators, and choosing profit over human rights.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 39m 20s | ||||||
| 7/14/22 | ![]() The Colonialist | An organization like FIFA does not become corrupt overnight. So how did it happen? Well, long before FIFA became stuff of criminal lore, soccer’s governing body was simply known to be racist and morally corrupt. From supporting South Africa’s racist apartheid regime to propping up authoritarian dictators, FIFA’s so-called Golden Years were more blood red than gold. At the top of the pyramid for much of this, an Englishman named Stanley Rous.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 34m 26s | ||||||
| 7/7/22 | ![]() The Fall of Sepp | The most powerful man in world sports. The king of international soccer. FIFA President Sepp Blatter commanded the attention of global superstars and political leaders alike during his 17-year reign. He had also survived every scandal that came his way - and there were a lot of them. He seemed to be made of teflon and then, in a blink of an eye, his luck ran out.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 48m 47s | ||||||
| 6/30/22 | ![]() The Indictments | In December 2010, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, surrounded by celebrities and politicians from around the globe, announced that Russia and Qatar would host the next two World Cup tournaments. The news shook the world. The choice of two authoritarian regimes, with troubling human rights records and little if any soccer infrastructure, set off alarm bells. How could this happen? Among those asking the question, federal agents in the United States who decided to take a closer look at soccer’s governing body.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 37m 20s | ||||||
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| 6/23/22 | ![]() The Raid | The five-star Baur-Au-Lac Hotel in Zurich, Switzerland caters to the world’s elite. Among its regular patrons, members of FIFA, which has its headquarters nearby. In May of 2015, just as the sun rose over bucolic Lake Zurich, authorities raided the hotel. The corrupt empire the Lords of Soccer had built was crashing down around them. Many FIFA’s biggest names would find themselves in handcuffs, led out by Swiss police as part of a raid that took down more than a dozen soccer officials, indicted on a range of charges, from money laundering to racketeering.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 32m 20s | ||||||
| 6/16/22 | ![]() The Inside Man | Chuck Blazer was one of the most powerful men in international soccer - or football, as most of the world knows it. As a member of FIFA’s executive committee, he was among an elite few who managed the World Cup, the globe’s ultimate sporting competition. To his fellow Lords of Soccer, Blazer was loyal; and like many of them, he was utterly corrupt. In November 2011, two federal agents stopped the eccentric sports executive outside his Trump Tower apartment. They offered him a deal - spill the tea on FIFA’s secret world of bribes and money laundering or go to prison for tax fraud. Blazer took the deal, setting in motion the largest international corruption investigation in history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 30m 58s | ||||||
| 6/1/22 | ![]() Introducing: The Lords of Soccer | See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 2m 43s | ||||||
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2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.

