Many viewers will tune into Netflix's new documentary FIFA Uncovered, interested in learning more about the brazen corruption, perilous labor conditions, and flaunting of petrol-state wealth on display at the 2022 Men's World Cup in Qatar. Released in the weeks before the Men's World Cup began in November 2022, FIFA Uncovered will fulfill the desires of such viewers, but only after British Director Daniel Gordon (Hillsborough, The Game of Their Lives, George Best: All by Himself) provides them with a ranging history of the administration of modern world soccer. By telling this less glamorous story, Gordon provides interested viewers—scholars and the public—with a compelling overview of the extent and peril of capitalism in modern soccer.
Gordon's documentary begins not in the desert along the Persian Gulf but with news coverage of high-profile arrests conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the...
