Kickback - Amazon Prime Video

I’ve just finished watching Kickback on Amazon Prime Video which is a documentary about the corruption within FIFA. It is centred around the work of late investigative journalist Andrew Jennings. It’s a good watch and really helped me to get an idea on the scale of the corruption, but also how the world doesn’t really want to hear it or investigate it. For me at least, it puts into greater context the bizarre outburst from Gianni Infantino yesterday. Surely FIFA needs to be abolished and replaced with a fit for purpose organisation?

Cheers for the heads up. I'll have a look at that.

Just watched it. Once again, proof that I don’t know as much about a lot of things as I think I do. I knew FIFA was corrupt, but didn’t realise how corrupt - well worth a watch as it’s a classic David v Goliath story.

How does it compare with FIFA Uncovered on Netflix? I'm watching that as my build up, and it's pretty disgusting what they did.

Blatter is interviewed for it and appears a lot, which surprised me.

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Originally Posted by lardy

How does it compare with FIFA Uncovered on Netflix? I'm watching that as my build up, and it's pretty disgusting what they did.

Blatter is interviewed for it and appears a lot, which surprised me.

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I noted that earlier and plan to watch it tomorrow but have not spoken with anybody else who has seen it. I can tell you that Kickback covers quite a time period and isn’t necessarily focused only on the awarding of 2018 and 2022. It looks back to how the organisation has been corrupt from the start under Blatter’s predecessor. It really is quite astonishing.

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Originally Posted by Harry Bosch

I noted that earlier and plan to watch it tomorrow but have not spoken with anybody else who has seen it. I can tell you that Kickback covers quite a time period and isn’t necessarily focused only on the awarding of 2018 and 2022. It looks back to how the organisation has been corrupt from the start under Blatter’s predecessor. It really is quite astonishing.

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This one sounds similar then. The first episode is the rise of commercialism in FIFA with the election of Havelange in 1974 - which quickly becomes corruption with the Argentina 78 WC.

As the OP mentions, Kickback focuses a lot on the work of Andrew Jennings and his persistence in pursuing the likes of Blatter and Warner.

FIFA = Football Is Farcical Again

I've just watched it. Bloody hell, they're even worse than I thought.
Fair play to Andrew Jennings for pursuing the truth for so long.

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Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland

I've just watched it. Bloody hell, they're even worse than I thought.
Fair play to Andrew Jennings for pursuing the truth for so long.

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This was exactly my reaction. I knew it was bad but bloody hell. They weren't wrong when they said it was organised like the mafia.

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Originally Posted by Harry Bosch

I’ve just finished watching Kickback on Amazon Prime Video which is a documentary about the corruption within FIFA. It is centred around the work of late investigative journalist Andrew Jennings. It’s a good watch and really helped me to get an idea on the scale of the corruption, but also how the world doesn’t really want to hear it or investigate it. For me at least, it puts into greater context the bizarre outburst from Gianni Infantino yesterday. Surely FIFA needs to be abolished and replaced with a fit for purpose organisation?

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Thanks for the recommendation, Harry. Watched it last night.

I knew FIFA was 'fairly' corrupt but after watching that I am now convinced it needs to be disbanded completely.

I hope after this WC Wales follow in the footsteps of other countries and threaten to withdraw from FIFA... Well done the Danes for making the biggest fuss.

If someone wanted to start a petition to the FAW to withdraw from FIFA I would absolutely support it and throw in a few quid to support the efforts.

It really enraged me.

I've not seen either this or the other Netflix one yet, but really want to. I read Andrew Jennings' book "Foul - The Secret World if FIFA" several years ago, and it was an eye opener to say the least. We all know FIFA is corrupt but that book really showed just how rotten to the very core it is, and it goes back all the way to the early days.
Since Blatter went, it doesn't seem as though anything has changed for the better, and I really would like to see the bigger associations just follow through with the threats to leave. Denmark and the other Nordic countries have apparently been in talks for quite a while about leaving FIFA. It's surely the only way to make a start on ridding the game of the disgusting and blatant corruption. Infantino and his type just make my skin crawl.

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Originally Posted by CopenhagenBlue

I've not seen either this or the other Netflix one yet, but really want to. I read Andrew Jennings' book "Foul - The Secret World if FIFA" several years ago, and it was an eye opener to say the least. We all know FIFA is corrupt but that book really showed just how rotten to the very core it is, and it goes back all the way to the early days.
Since Blatter went, it doesn't seem as though anything has changed for the better, and I really would like to see the bigger associations just follow through with the threats to leave. Denmark and the other Nordic countries have apparently been in talks for quite a while about leaving FIFA. It's surely the only way to make a start on ridding the game of the disgusting and blatant corruption. Infantino and his type just make my skin crawl.

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As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I thought I was pretty clued up about FIFA, but, having watched Kickback (I’ll watch the Netflix one soon), I didn’t know the half of it - it really is worth a watch.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I thought I was pretty clued up about FIFA, but, having watched Kickback (I’ll watch the Netflix one soon), I didn’t know the half of it - it really is worth a watch.

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Yeah, the book really opened my eyes to just how deep it went, and after watching the trailer for Kickback just now, a lot of what was in the book will be in the documentary, plus a lot of more recent material too. People like Jack Warner of CONCACAF and what he was allowed to get away with for so long was just mindblowing. After the huge scandal in 2015, it's incredulous that nothing much changed for the better.
The trailer ended with Jennings saying that "when you see pictures fromaround the world of kids playing football barefoot, you know they could have had boots, and good uniforms etc... But the thieves took their money." That sums it all up for me. Thieves and nothing less.

Just finished watching FIFA Uncovered and it’s a pretty bleak stuff, especially the last episode, because it feels like nothing’s changed. There’s always been corruption in football, but, rightly or wrongly, it felt like it was on an individual basis, now it’s hard not to believe the ex FIFA officials who said you can’t have a FIFA without corruption in the final minutes of FIFA Uncovered.