This archive report was first published on 5 June 2020.
June 5, 2020, marked the release of Amazon Prime's new series 'El Presidente,' a satirical take on the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal that rocked the football world.
At the center of the scandal was former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who was ousted following the arrests of dozens of football executives, many of them from Latin America, on bribery charges.
Series creator Armando Bo described the scandal as 'crazy,' with the FBI wanting to show they were the good guys and everyone wanting to be part of it.
Bo's series tells the story through the eyes of Sergio Jadue, a young Chilean who rose from the front office of a humble local club to the vice presidency of CONMEBOL, South American football's governing body.
With a budget of $150 million, the series is a gripping depiction of a naive but ambitious character getting swept up in an international criminal world of bribery, fraud, and even violence.
Bo, who won an Oscar for co-writing 2014's black comedy 'Birdman,' joked that the biggest challenge was that there wasn't as much blood as in his previous work.
