Fixing Football

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in North America. But behind the spectacle lies a story of corruption, impunity, and institutional failure. Mel Brennan was Head of Special Projects at CONCACAF and one of five North American delegates to the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan. He watched as the organisation entrusted with the world's game betrayed it. And unlike almost everyone else who was in the room, he decided to talk about it. Part memoir, part exposé, part manifesto, Fixing Football takes readers from Trump Tower boardrooms to World Cup congresses, tracing the corruption at the heart of world football governance and making an urgent, practical case for reform. With the tournament arriving on North American soil, Brennan argues this is the moment the sport - and the region - cannot afford to waste. Mel Brennan is the only former North American football executive to speak on the record about what he witnessed inside CONCACAF and FIFA. He remains the highest-ranked African-American in the history of world football governance. Also published as Saving Soccer in North America. (ISBN: 978-1-923236-58-5; ISBN eBook: 978-1-923236-59-2) International readers Fixing Football (or Saving Soccer) is available internationally in print, and purchasing it from your home base, or online via Amazon/Barnes and Noble etcetera, is likely to incur less postage cost for you.