★★★★☆ (4/5) Memorable Quote: “You think FIFA is the problem? FIFA is the jersey. WMA is the body wearing it.” – Sergio Jadue (voiceover)
Episode Summary In the fifth episode of Amazon Prime’s gripping football corruption drama El Presidente , titled “WMA,” the intricate web of fraud, bribery, and influence surrounding the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal tightens around its central players. The episode shifts focus from the chaotic electioneering of previous episodes to the quiet, calculating machinery of international football governance. “WMA” exposes the shadowy organization that has been pulling the strings all along—a private entity masquerading as a legitimate football authority, where votes are commodities and national federations are mere subsidiaries. el presidente s01e05 wma
Critics called “WMA” the season’s “most quietly devastating episode” ( Variety ), noting how it “replaces the adrenaline of the first four episodes with the slow dread of institutional inevitability” ( The Playlist ). Some viewers found the lack of on-field action jarring, but the episode’s final shot—Jadue alone in a Miami hotel room, watching a youth team play on a cracked television—drives home the tragedy: the game still exists, but the men who run it no longer see it. ★★★★☆ (4/5) Memorable Quote: “You think FIFA is
The episode opens with Sergio Jadue (the former president of the Chilean Football Federation and the show’s unreliable narrator) now fully embedded as a cooperating witness for U.S. prosecutors. Through flashbacks, we see how the so-called “WMA” functioned as a shell company designed to launder marketing rights payments from major tournaments. In a tense boardroom scene, Juan Pedro Damiani and Eugenio Figueredo (based on real-life figures) introduce a new “strategic partnership” with a Miami-based sports marketing firm—a move that Jadue realizes is not about football, but about buying silence and votes. The episode shifts focus from the chaotic electioneering