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How FIFA’s Godfather and Brazil’s Biggest Gangster Forged a Deadly Alliance, ft. Conor Powell

2022/12/20
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Sean Williams: 本期节目探讨了巴西臭名昭著的黑帮老大卡斯特·德·安德拉德及其与国际足联主席若昂·阿维兰热之间的关系。卡斯特·德·安德拉德通过非法赌博和其它犯罪活动建立了一个庞大的犯罪帝国，而阿维兰热则利用其在国际足联的权力，为卡斯特·德·安德拉德提供庇护，并从中获利。这揭示了国际足联长期存在的腐败问题以及其对全球足球的影响。 Conor Powell: 国际足联的腐败由来已久，其根源可以追溯到其早期历史中的殖民主义和种族主义。阿维兰热上任后，利用其权力大肆敛财，并与各种独裁政权和犯罪组织建立联系。卡斯特·德·安德拉德的案例是国际足联腐败的典型体现，阿维兰热利用其在国际足联的地位，为卡斯特·德·安德拉德提供保护，使其免受法律制裁。这不仅损害了足球运动的公平性，也导致了大量的资金流失和社会危害。 Conor Powell: 国际足联的腐败不仅仅体现在个别官员的贪污受贿上，更在于其整个制度的腐朽。从早期欧洲中心主义的排外到后来的权力寻租和利益输送，国际足联的腐败已经渗透到其运作的方方面面。卡塔尔世界杯的申办过程就是一个典型的例子，充满了金钱交易和权钱交易。而美国联邦调查局的介入，也从侧面反映了国际足联腐败的严重性和国际社会的关注。 Sean Williams: 卡斯特·德·安德拉德的案例也揭示了巴西社会长期存在的腐败问题。他能够在巴西军政府时期逍遥法外，并与巴西政商界精英建立密切关系，这与巴西社会的政治生态密不可分。他的犯罪活动不仅涉及赌博，还包括洗钱、贩毒和暴力犯罪，对巴西社会造成了巨大的危害。

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Castor de Andrade, known as the King of Carnival, built a powerful criminal empire in Brazil through illegal gambling, running an underground lottery, and expanding into other criminal activities like weapons and drug trafficking.

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Castor de Andrade might just be the most powerful mobster you’ve never heard of. Born into a life of crime in Rio’s suburbs, he graduated from local lotteries to an empire encompassing Cali and Sicily—and he had his own soccer club.

Even Brazil’s military dictators were terrified of Castor. But that didn’t scare off Joao Havelange, son of a gun-runner and a successful businessman who, as chief of FIFA, took a parochial, Eurocentric sport and turned it into a global powerhouse. But as Castor, the country’s “Carnival King”, began eliminating his rivals, the relationship with soccer’s most powerful man turned it—and the game—into something very different. As journalist Conor Powell, host of the Lords of Soccer podcast, tells us, it was a trend that has only gotten bigger today

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