Birdman writer Armando Bó tackles the football scandal for Amazon…

Oscar winning Birdman scribe Armando Bó is about to debut his new Amazon series about the 2015 “FIFA Gate” corruption scandal. In the eight-episode project, Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder), Andrés Parra (Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal) and Paulina Gaitán (Diablo Guardian) star as the central figures of the series, which is based loosely on real-life events.

“El Presidente is set against the backdrop of cities across Latin America, the U.S. and Europe, the ‘dramedy’ explores the sports scandal that rocked the world through the story of Sergio Jadue, a small‐time Chilean football club president who rose from obscurity to become a key player in a $150m bribery conspiracy at the hand of the infamous president of the Argentine football association, Julio Grondona.”

See the trailer below…

The series will be streaming on Amazon Prime Video UK from 5th June.