The trailer for FIFA's film about FIFA is a feast of dodgy deals

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In case you missed it, FIFA funded a film about FIFA last year. It was a £19 million extravaganza featuring Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill and Tim Roth as FIFA presidents, the latter playing none other than Don Blatterone himself.

United Passions cost £19 million, more than a year's funding for FIFA's programme supporting football in poorer nations, of which £16 million was provided by FIFA themselves. Premiering in Cannes in May 2014, it subsequently only opened in a handful of countries (hello, Serbia) and had reportedly only made £125,000 by last October.

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The trailer, above, is less than two minutes long but is a feast of rule-bending, corruption, and dodgy deals from the history pages of this fine institution, and contains one particularly fine line: "Blatter, he is apparently good at finding money."

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