Declan Hill - The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime

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"This book explains the fight between good and evil that exists in international football today"
--Emmanuel Petit, World Cup winning footballer.

This book will forever
change the way you
think and feel about
professional sport.

The Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. It presents compelling evidence that some of the highest soccer matches in the world may have been fixed: European Champions League, Olympic and World Cup tournaments.

Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist, Declan Hill, who set out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer.

"Declan Hill writes a well-researched book, of investigative journalistic brilliance."
--Shaka Hislop, ESPN soccer commentator and former English Premier League and World Cup goalkeeper.

"A fascinating read. [The Fix] is part true-crime potboiler, part spy thriller, part academic discourse and part journey of personal discovery."
--Stephen Brunt, The Globe and Mail.


	Hill came face-to-face with the multi-billion dollar illegal Asian gambling industry. Over four years, he interviewed more than two hundred people, including professional gamblers, Mafia hitmen, undercover cops, top-level international soccer players, referees, and officials. He met men who claim they have bribed their way into changing the results of some of the biggest games in the sport. Initially very sceptical, Hill travelled across four continents to corroborate their stories. He found soccer leagues where mobsters have fixed more than eighty per cent of the games. But most chilling, he met and then was adopted by a small group of match-fixers. In The Fix, Hill explains the structure and mechanics of illegal gambling syndicates, what soccer players and referees do (or not do) to affect the outcome of their games, why relatively rich and high-status athletes would fix games, how and why club officials would bribe the opposition and how they get referees “on their side.” Perhaps most shocking is Hill’s discovery that gambling fixers have successfully infiltrated the game, all the way to the top international matches. The book, however, is not just about soccer, the world’s most popular sport. Throughout the text, Hill uses examples from other sports – tennis, hockey, even rowing – to show that the credibility of professional sport now lies on a fragile foundation, and it provides enough hints to suspect that all sports above amateur level should look nervously over the shoulder. Get "The Fix" at Amazon.com. Click here. "Sichere Siege" bei Amazon.de bestellen. "Comment truquer un match de foot?" chez Amazon.fr Bestilling af bogen: "Det aftalte spil"


	6-February-2009 The Independent: "They can fix games in any league, I've seen it - and it's coming here" 4-February-2009 The Guardian: "Fair play?" January-2009 Soccerpro interview video" 21-December-2008 Toronto Star Review of "The Fix". 10-November-2008 Article in The Times on Declan Hill. 27-October-2008 Daily Telegraph article about "The Fix". 17-October-2008 Tipsbladet: "Manden de ikke vil lytte til"(Danish) 12-October-2008 Kathimerini: "?p??a???e?? ??a st?µ??a µat?"(Greek) 23-September-2008 Declan Hill on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos 10-September-2008 Sport/Voetbal: "Dit kan de dood van het voetbal betekenen" (Flemish) 4-September-2008 Globe & Mail report on "The Fix" 3-September-2008 Emmanuel Petit's reaction. (French) 2-September-2008 Corriere della Sera: "Calcio, assalto della mafia asiatica" (Italian) 1-September-2008 Der Spiegel: "Manipulationsverdacht bei WM 2006 und in der Bundesliga" (German) 1-September-2008 Beckmann im Gespräch mit Declan Hill (German)