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The definitive story of Fifa - from its humble beginnings as the amateur organiser of international football, to the behemoth mired in corruption, written by one of the greatest investigative writers in football.

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The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa´s rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen.

1904: ´No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit´ - Fifa congress

A century later: ´Fifa is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise´ - A judge in Brooklyn, using a term originally coined for the mafia

For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. Now David Conn, football´s most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the extraordinary history and staggering scale of corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa - the power brokers, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview.

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"This book has a cumulative power, piling betrayal on betrayal, until they even include one of Conn´s childhood idols from the 1974 World Cup, the German player Franz Beckenbauer" Andy Beckett Guardian

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