A rundown of some of the notable events that led to Tuesday’s announcement that FIFA President Sepp Blatter will resign: December 2010: FIFA, soccer’s governing body, awards Russia the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 World Cup.
After making the decision to focus on Jadue, the director and screenwriter had to choose a genre direction in which to steer the project. “I decided to take it on the side of parody, of satire, because it was a different way of denouncing [what happened], of laughing together at the circus that is soccer,” he explained.
But “El Presidente” is not a sports series, Bó stressed, and match scenes are scarce. “This is about the business behind soccer and not about soccer itself,” he said. And that business is often a dirty one, up to the South American leaders who are depicted as thugs and sexual harassers in addition to participating in the corruption scheme.“We undoubtedly present a dark world and quote people with their real names, but we also chose to tell the story of what they do as if it were the most normal thing in the world,” said Bó, who had no direct access to any of the people involved.
“The art of good soccer is something different,” he said. “It’s a great pleasure for me to be able to see a Champions League game; in fact, it’s what I miss most right now. But that doesn‘t mean that I can’t tell what happened in this case and that we can’t even entertain ourselves with those same events.
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