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Title:
American huckster : how Chuck Blazer got rich from-and sold out-the most powerful cabal in world sports / Mary Papenfuss and Teresa Thompson.
ISBN:
9780062449672
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Physical Description:
xiv, 255 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Teetering at the top -- On the hustle -- Birth of soccer fiefdom -- Playboy of Western CONCACAF -- Mad Max and the TV studio -- Life was good -- Pay to play -- A hundred and five in the shade -- Uncle Jack -- Votes for sale -- From hero to zero to hero? -- The hammer falls -- La FIFA Nostra -- Who cares? -- The end.
Summary:
"The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center--the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world's most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely FBI whistleblower,"--Amazon.com.
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OCLC Number:
ocn946725554
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
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