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På söndag är det avspark i ett av tidernas mest omdiskuterade och ifrågasatta VM i fotboll. Bonita Mersiades jobbade för Australiens VM-kampanj när man kämpade mot Ryssland, Qatar och en del andra länder om att få arrangera VM 2018 och 2022 och hon skrev sedan den avslöjande boken Whatever it takes.I maj 2018 intervjuade jag Bonita Mersiades och då berättade hon om hur Australien gjorde av med 350 miljoner kronor för att få röster, om hur medlemmar i Fifa:s exekutivkommitté ville ha gåvor och pengar, om hur hon fick köpa ett smycke till en medlems hustru, om hur Franz Beckenbauer utlovade en röst i utbyte mot att en närstående till honom fick betalt och om hur andra gamla storspelare sålde sina tjänster till högstbjudande.Dessutom beskrev Mersiades hur hon blev utfryst och sparkad när hon ifrågasatte pengarullningen och etiken i Australiens VM-kampanj, om hur hon blev hotad med stämning när hon ville skriva en bok, om hur Fifa hängde ut henne när hon vittnade i organisationens rapport om hur det gick till när Qatar och Ryssland fick VM och Mersiades förklarade också vilken tur Ryssland haft som sluppit granskning när Qatar fått alla rubriker och att Fifa inte blivit mycket bättre trots att Sepp Blatter bytts ut mot Gianni Infantino. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I en tid när det på allvar talas om en bojkott av VM i Qatar 2022 och när allt fler är kritiska till styrningen av den internationella fotbollen är det värt att lyfta fram Bonita Mersiades. Hon var en tidig visselblåsare kring kampanjerna för att få VM 2018 och 2022 men som fotbollen straffade snarare än hyllade. Jag träffade henne i Dubai våren 2018 och hon berättade om sin bok Whatever it takes som handlade om hennes arbete för Australiens VM-kampanj och hur man gjorde av med 350 miljoner kronor för att få röster. Det visade sig vara förgäves. Det var talande att höra om hur medlemmar i Fifa:s exekutivkommitté ville ha gåvor och pengar, om hur Franz Beckenbauer utlovade en röst i utbyte mot att en närstående till honom fick betalt och om hur andra gamla storspelare erbjöd sina tjänster, och då givetvis till högstbjudande. Dessutom beskrev Mersiades om hur hon blev utfryst och sparkad när hon ifrågasatte pengarullningen och etiken i Australiens VM-kampanj, om hur hon blev hotad och hatad, om hur Fifa hängde ut henne när hon vittnade i organisationens rapport om hur det gick till när Qatar och Ryssland fick VM och om hur hon efter det hade svårt att få jobb. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we are joined by Bonita Mersiades, former Head of Public Affairs with the Football Federation Australia, and author of Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way (Powderhouse Press, 2018).  In our conversation, we discussed the 2018/2022 Australian World Cup bid, the future of global football, and the FIFA way. In Whatever It Takes, Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process.  The Football Federation Australia, one of the country ’s most powerful executives, and the Commonwealth government worked together to develop a case for an Australian World Cup.  They produced an attractive sales pitch that included new stadiums across the country, partnerships with state governments, and potential celebrity endorsements from Aussie movie stars.  The bid cost the Australian taxpayers over 50 million dollars, much of that money paid to consultants, but in front of the secretive Executive Committee, the their bid received only one vote. Whatever It Takes documents how the Australian bid failed so completely.  Mersiades showcases how the Australian bid – seen by many as the dirty bid – was compromised and highlights how the World Cup bid process can implicate federation officials, journalists, and sportsmen.  Mersiades’ account pulses.  Few escape her vivid recollections as she deftly weaves her short chapters full with rich conversations with top FIFA officials, including Sepp Blatter; arguments with jet setting former soccer stars; interviews with journalists from around the globe; and interrogations from FBI investigators. Anyone interested in the inner workings of sports most powerful and at times secretive organizations should read Mersiades insiders account. Keith Rathbone is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. His manuscript, entitled A Nation in Play: Physical Culture, the State, and Society during France’s Dark Years, 1932-1948, examines physical education and sports in order to better understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime.  If you have a title to suggest for this podcast, please contact him at keith.rathbone@mq.edu.au   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Bonita Mersiades, former Head of Public Affairs with the Football Federation Australia, and author of Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way (Powderhouse Press, 2018).  In our conversation, we discussed the 2018/2022 Australian World Cup bid, the future of global football, and the FIFA way. In Whatever It Takes, Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process.  The Football Federation Australia, one of the country ’s most powerful executives, and the Commonwealth government worked together to develop a case for an Australian World Cup.  They produced an attractive sales pitch that included new stadiums across the country, partnerships with state governments, and potential celebrity endorsements from Aussie movie stars.  The bid cost the Australian taxpayers over 50 million dollars, much of that money paid to consultants, but in front of the secretive Executive Committee, the their bid received only one vote. Whatever It Takes documents how the Australian bid failed so completely.  Mersiades showcases how the Australian bid – seen by many as the dirty bid – was compromised and highlights how the World Cup bid process can implicate federation officials, journalists, and sportsmen.  Mersiades’ account pulses.  Few escape her vivid recollections as she deftly weaves her short chapters full with rich conversations with top FIFA officials, including Sepp Blatter; arguments with jet setting former soccer stars; interviews with journalists from around the globe; and interrogations from FBI investigators. Anyone interested in the inner workings of sports most powerful and at times secretive organizations should read Mersiades insiders account. Keith Rathbone is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. His manuscript, entitled A Nation in Play: Physical Culture, the State, and Society during France’s Dark Years, 1932-1948, examines physical education and sports in order to better understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime.  If you have a title to suggest for this podcast, please contact him at keith.rathbone@mq.edu.au   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Bonita Mersiades, former Head of Public Affairs with the Football Federation Australia, and author of Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way (Powderhouse Press, 2018).  In our conversation, we discussed the 2018/2022 Australian World Cup bid, the future of global football, and the FIFA way. In Whatever It Takes, Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process.  The Football Federation Australia, one of the country ’s most powerful executives, and the Commonwealth government worked together to develop a case for an Australian World Cup.  They produced an attractive sales pitch that included new stadiums across the country, partnerships with state governments, and potential celebrity endorsements from Aussie movie stars.  The bid cost the Australian taxpayers over 50 million dollars, much of that money paid to consultants, but in front of the secretive Executive Committee, the their bid received only one vote. Whatever It Takes documents how the Australian bid failed so completely.  Mersiades showcases how the Australian bid – seen by many as the dirty bid – was compromised and highlights how the World Cup bid process can implicate federation officials, journalists, and sportsmen.  Mersiades’ account pulses.  Few escape her vivid recollections as she deftly weaves her short chapters full with rich conversations with top FIFA officials, including Sepp Blatter; arguments with jet setting former soccer stars; interviews with journalists from around the globe; and interrogations from FBI investigators. Anyone interested in the inner workings of sports most powerful and at times secretive organizations should read Mersiades insiders account. Keith Rathbone is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. His manuscript, entitled A Nation in Play: Physical Culture, the State, and Society during France’s Dark Years, 1932-1948, examines physical education and sports in order to better understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime.  If you have a title to suggest for this podcast, please contact him at keith.rathbone@mq.edu.au   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Bonita Mersiades, former Head of Public Affairs with the Football Federation Australia, and author of Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way (Powderhouse Press, 2018).  In our conversation, we discussed the 2018/2022 Australian World Cup bid, the future of global football, and the FIFA way. In Whatever It Takes, Mersiades offers an insiders account into the Australian bid, unpacking the political and personal ambitions that drove the process.  The Football Federation Australia, one of the country ’s most powerful executives, and the Commonwealth government worked together to develop a case for an Australian World Cup.  They produced an attractive sales pitch that included new stadiums across the country, partnerships with state governments, and potential celebrity endorsements from Aussie movie stars.  The bid cost the Australian taxpayers over 50 million dollars, much of that money paid to consultants, but in front of the secretive Executive Committee, the their bid received only one vote. Whatever It Takes documents how the Australian bid failed so completely.  Mersiades showcases how the Australian bid – seen by many as the dirty bid – was compromised and highlights how the World Cup bid process can implicate federation officials, journalists, and sportsmen.  Mersiades’ account pulses.  Few escape her vivid recollections as she deftly weaves her short chapters full with rich conversations with top FIFA officials, including Sepp Blatter; arguments with jet setting former soccer stars; interviews with journalists from around the globe; and interrogations from FBI investigators. Anyone interested in the inner workings of sports most powerful and at times secretive organizations should read Mersiades insiders account. Keith Rathbone is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. His manuscript, entitled A Nation in Play: Physical Culture, the State, and Society during France’s Dark Years, 1932-1948, examines physical education and sports in order to better understand civic life under the dual authoritarian systems of the German Occupation and the Vichy Regime.  If you have a title to suggest for this podcast, please contact him at keith.rathbone@mq.edu.au   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avsnitt 195 av Sveriges nyfiknaste fotbollspodd gästas av Bonita Mersiades. Hon jobbade för Australiens VM-kampanj när man kämpade mot Ryssland, Qatar och en del andra länder om att få arrangera VM 2018 och 2022 och har nu skrivit boken Whatever it takes. I den beskriver hon hur det gick till när man gjorde av med 350 miljoner kronor för att få röster och Mersiades berättar om hur medlemmar i Fifa:s exekutivkommitté ville ha gåvor och pengar, om hur hon fick köpa ett smycke till en medlems hustru, om hur Franz Beckenbauer utlovade en röst i utbyte mot att en närstående till honom fick betalt och hur andra gamla storspelare erbjöd sina tjänster till högstbjudande.Dessutom beskriver Mersiades hur hon blev utfryst och sparkad när hon ifrågasatte pengarullningen och etiken i Australiens VM-kampanj, hur hon blev hotad med stämning när hon ville skriva en bok, hur Fifa hängde ut henne när hon vittnade i organisationens rapport om hur det gick till när Qatar och Ryssland fick VM och hur hon som visselblåsare blev svartlistad i Australien och haft svårt att få jobb.Bonita Mersiades förklarar också vilken tur Ryssland haft som sluppit granskning när Qatar fått alla rubriker, om att Qatar-VM blir svårt att flytta, att Fifa inte blivit mycket bättre trots att Sepp Blatter bytts ut mot Gianni Infantino och hur det är att vara kvinna i en oerhört sexistisk miljö. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.