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Netflix’s Fifa Uncovered dives into the football’s governing body’s decades of shady transactions. Qatar was awarded hosting rights for the upcoming 2022 World Cup — despite needing to move the competition to the winter to accommodate the country’s intense summer heat and humidity — raising questions about whether bribery played a hand. Netflix’s new documentary takes us on a trip down memory lane to unpack how we got here, starting in 1974, when Fifa merely set up football tournaments — that is, until João Havelange became president of the football organization. Havelange vowed to expand the game globally, and began signing sponsorship agreements to fund his expansion, effectively ushering in an era when the sport was brought to fans in association with massive companies such as Coca Cola and Adidas. The documentary goes on to detail the corruption that transpired for years — including how the organization’s structural faults enabled a small group of men to have disproportionate influence in presidential elections and World Cup selection committees — culminating in the FBI indicting 14 Fifa executives for corruption and racketeering conspiracy in 2015.