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Episode 7 was the cash. This is everything that wasn't cash. The Aspire Academy in Doha, founded in 2004 with a $2.4 billion endowment. Football Dreams scouting programmes in seventeen countries — many of them, by 2010, with FIFA Executive Committee voters. A Brazil-Argentina friendly in Doha fifteen days before the ballot. A private aircraft. The Garcia Report called it "a troubling pattern."
In this episode:
- How Aspire's Football Dreams country list closely tracked the geography of the FIFA voters Qatar needed
- The 17 November 2010 Doha friendly: $1.5 million paid to the Argentine FA to bring Brazil and Argentina to the Khalifa Stadium
- The private flights to Brazil days before the vote — three FIFA voters, on a Qatari Football Association aircraft, on no official FIFA business
- Where the line sits between lob ...