THE UGLY GAME: THE QATARI PLOT TO BUY THE WORLD CUP
Book ID/图书代码： 12100015B79423
English Summary/英文概要： When the tiny desert state of Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 World Cup, the news was greeted with shock and disbelief. How had a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terror risk and searing summer temperatures of 50C beaten more established countries with stronger bids? The story behind the Qatari success soon developed into one of the greatest sporting scandals of our time.
Allegations of corruption were soon flying, and when the Sunday Times Insight team received a cache of hundreds of millions of documents from a whistleblower, the contents of the FIFA Files became a global sensation, unearthing the corruption that lay at the heart of the bidding process.
Now in this remarkable new book by the Sunday Times journalists at the heart of the investigation, Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert, comes the most comprehensive account yet of what happened and who was involved. Above all, it explains why, despite all the evidence, FIFA continues to support Qatar - even to the extent of publishing an edited and abbreviated report into the process that was immediately denounced by its original author. The Ugly Game is undoubtedly the biggest sporting story of the year.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 当中东小国卡塔尔赢得2022年世界杯举办权时，这一消息令人震惊。为何一个几乎没有足球基础设施、没有足球传统、夏季温度高达50度的恐怖主义高危国家能够打败其他竞争对手，赢得举办权？卡塔尔胜利的幕后故事迅速成为当下体育界最大丑闻之一。
有爆料者向《星期日泰晤士报》提供了国际足球联盟（FIFA）的资料，内容揭露了世界杯举办权竞标过程背后的腐败，一时间令国际舆论哗然。于是，人们开始抨击和指责FIFA的腐败。
如今，在调查的风口浪尖，《星期日泰晤士报》记者 Heidi Blake与Jonathan Calvert推出此书，全面记录了事态的发生和进程以及相关涉案人员。最重要的是，本书解释了，为何FIFA不顾一切证据，仍旧力挺卡塔尔。《丑陋的游戏》无疑是本年度最劲爆的体育界新闻内幕。（LYR）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Heidi Blake于2011年加入《星期日泰晤士报》，时任“视角组”副编辑，在此之前，曾供职于《每日电讯报》，2014年3月晋升为助理编辑。Jonathan Calvert作为一名记者，曾供职于多家报社，是《星期日泰晤士报》“视角组”成员中资历最深的编辑，在此岗位已工作10余年。
Heidi Blake started out as a trainee on the Daily Telegraph in 2008, before joining the Sunday Times as deputy Insight editor in 2011. She was promoted to assistant editor of the paper in March 2014. Jonathan Calvert has worked for various newspapers in a long and distinguished career as a journalist. He is the longest-serving editor of the Insight team at the Sunday Times, having held the role for more than ten years.
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