The episode follows Jadue’s transformation from a naive outsider into a cunning political player. He successfully helps Grondona’s candidate win the Chilean presidency, and in return, Jadue is appointed as the new president of Chilean football. The episode ends with Jadue realizing that he is now a pawn in a much larger, continent-wide scheme of bribery and vote-trading, setting the stage for the 2015 FBI investigation.
The Away Team Original Title: El Equipo de Visita
The series opens in 2015, with a framing device of the FIFA corruption scandal breaking. The episode then flashes back to 2012. It introduces Sergio Jadue , the humble, awkward president of a small Chilean football club (Colo-Colo). He is struggling financially and politically against the powerful, old-guard leadership of Chilean football.
Desperate to save his club, Jadue is approached by the enigmatic and well-connected (the powerful head of CONMEBOL and Argentine Football Association). Grondona offers him a lifeline: if Jadue helps him rig an election to remove the current president of the Chilean football federation, he will be rewarded with power and money.