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Not Medellin, or Cali: the first cartel in South America was the soccer cartel. Behind the passion that moves hundreds of people hides a web of corruption and intrigue that seems impenetrable until a new player arrives on the scene: a young man called Sergio Jadue. Against all odds, the Chilean man is elected president of his country’s soccer association, as a front for a group of businessmen who are actually running things. When he takes over this position, he finds he has everything he always dreamed of: recognition, a higher social standing, and all the money he lacked during his rough childhood in La Calera, his hometown. Blinded by his newfound authority, the president can no longer be controlled by those who put him in power. He explores the limits of his authority, from Santiago, Chile, to Luque, Paraguay, the capital of South American soccer and the headquarters of the “family” who has controlled the business for almost half a century, using different championships as “kiosks”, as well as the adjacent business deals that soccer generates. The web of corruption was designed by an Argentinean called Julio Grondona, godfather and monarch of South American soccer, and administrator of the “kiosks” that fatten each soccer federation president’s bank account. Now in his golden years, “Don Julio” takes young Jadue under his wing. However, as Don Julio often says, “Everything passes, and everything arrives as well.” Meanwhile, the FBI doesn’t miss a single one of Jadue’s steps, nor of the rest of the CONMEBOL presidents’. Suddenly, what seemed to be a continental criminal network is revealed as a complex and extensive network of money laundering, influence trafficking, and shady businesses known around the world as FIFA GATE. Welcome to the oldest corporate family in the contemporary world.
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Natalia Beristain, Armando Bo, Gabriel Díaz
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Natalia Beristain, Gabriel Díaz
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Paulina Gaitán, Andrés Parra, Karla Souza
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- EPISODIC PHOTOS (23)
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In South America, soccer is a million-dollar profit maker for one happy family, the CONMEBOL. One day, the wrong man makes it into the association, and everything begins to crumble. Drunk with power, he will betray everyone, and at the same time, become the FBI’s key to dismantling the web of corruption known as FIFA GATE. All great empires crumble, and when they do, no emperor is left standing.Show Description
Not Medellin, or Cali: the first cartel in South America was the soccer cartel. Behind the passion that moves hundreds of people hides a web of corruption and intrigue that seems impenetrable until a new player arrives on the scene: a young man called Sergio Jadue. Against all odds, the Chilean man is elected president of his country’s soccer association, as a front for a group of businessmen who are actually running things. When he takes over this position, he finds he has everything he always dreamed of: recognition, a higher social standing, and all the money he lacked during his rough childhood in La Calera, his hometown. Blinded by his newfound authority, the president can no longer be controlled by those who put him in power. He explores the limits of his authority, from Santiago, Chile, to Luque, Paraguay, the capital of South American soccer and the headquarters of the “family” who has controlled the business for almost half a century, using different championships as “kiosks”, as well as the adjacent business deals that soccer generates. The web of corruption was designed by an Argentinean called Julio Grondona, godfather and monarch of South American soccer, and administrator of the “kiosks” that fatten each soccer federation president’s bank account. Now in his golden years, “Don Julio” takes young Jadue under his wing. However, as Don Julio often says, “Everything passes, and everything arrives as well.” Meanwhile, the FBI doesn’t miss a single one of Jadue’s steps, nor of the rest of the CONMEBOL presidents’. Suddenly, what seemed to be a continental criminal network is revealed as a complex and extensive network of money laundering, influence trafficking, and shady businesses known around the world as FIFA GATE. Welcome to the oldest corporate family in the contemporary world.
Episode Descriptions
1 - Not your topo
A family governed by traditions and complicity controls South American soccer: the CONMEBOL. But one day, they allow the wrong man to join their ranks: Sergio Jadue, the president of a small soccer club, in a country that has never won anything. Inebriated by power, he becomes a protégée of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, and the FBI’s key to dismantling the web of corruption known as FIFA GATE.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
2 - Rosarito
In soccer, dodges or feints are admired and applauded, but there is one problem: if you can’t pull it off, you’re risking major ridicule. Sergio Jadue is about to pull off the feint of his lifetime, but something goes wrong. Cornered by an FBI agent, he is left with two options: he can collaborate with the investigation, or go to jail. He can either be with the gringos or against himself.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
3 - Las pelotas
Luck is for losers. A true winner doesn’t hope for results: he makes them. With this in mind, Sergio Jadue prepares to televise the Copa America group draw to the entire world, as a sort of kickoff event for the tournament that will be held in his county. But there’s no reason to be so serious: first comes a CONMEBOL family tremendous celebration, with the FBI infiltrated at the party itself.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
4 - En el palo
Money is exciting. Grab it, make a stash: a new car, caviar, and why not, buy a soccer team. Pink Floyd said it, not Jadue. With bank account figures he’s never seen before, the La Calera native splurges on himself, followed closely by a reporter. Meanwhile, the FBI is pressing him to deliver some concrete evidence: the time has come to be a rat, or perhaps a monkey, the smartest animal of all.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
5 - Padre Nuestro
Jadue resorts to the celestial plane to ask for divine intervention before the moral crossroads he finds himself at: Will God have space amongst his flock to accommodate the sinful CONMEBOL family, or will he unleash his heavy punishment onto them? Jadue hopes that his sacrifice as a Lamb of God can cleanse his sins, although he fears that at the end of the road, he might end up crucified anyway.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
6 - Fifageit
Judgment day has arrived for Jadue, but Agent Harris arrives just in time to rescue the president from the vultures circling around the entire CONMEBOL family’s deathbed. Working against time, Jadue has to find the best lawyers that money can buy — but not even they can save him from what Nene is about to discover.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
7 - Mentira
As the joy brought on by the Copa America tournament spreads throughout Chile, a dark shadow falls over the Jadue Facuse family and the CONMEBOL. Sergio Jadue must now play his final card in order to come out of this free fall with as little harm as possible. People say there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel, but what no one told this man is that some tunnels are blind alleys.
Air Date: June 05, 2020
8 - Todo pasa
As Julio Grondona used to say, “Everything passes.” Marital difficulties triggered by lies pass. Financial problems pass. National embarrassments pass. The great triumphs that, for an instant, elevate completely unknown countries to the highest of heavens – those too, pass. Money passes. Justice passes. But what happened to Sergio Jadue? Everything.
Air Date: June 05, 2020