Director (and series co-creator) Pablo Larraín frames Jadue’s preparation like a sacrament. The wire taped to his chest isn’t a spy gadget — it’s a stethoscope, listening to the dying heartbeat of a system he helped build. Cantillana’s performance, all twitching fingers and hollow eyes, elevates Jadue from traitor to tragic figure. He’s not a hero. He’s a man who realized too late that loyalty in football only flows upward.
We know what happens next. But the episode denies us the satisfaction of the arrest. Instead, we watch Jadue remove his wire in a sterile FBI safe house. We watch Napout kiss his granddaughter goodbye, not knowing it’s for years. We watch Figueredo pour himself one last glass of whisky, the ice cubes clicking like handcuffs not yet closed. el presidente s02e06 wma
Meanwhile, at CONMEBOL headquarters in Luque, Paraguay, the old guard gathers. Juan Ángel Napout (Alejandro Goic) is finalizing a sponsorship deal with a Brazilian conglomerate. Eugenio Figueredo (Claudio Rissi) is counting cash in a safe disguised as a storage closet. And at the center of the table, his tie loosened, his smile frozen — Sergio “El Checho” Jadue, the mole. He’s not a hero
Season 2, Episode 6 — titled — is where that kingdom finally crumbles. Not with a bang of handcuffs (those come later), but with a whisper of exhaustion. The episode is a masterclass in dramatic irony: we know the Zurich hotel raid is coming. The characters, lost in their own delusions, do not. And the title? “WMA” isn’t an acronym for a football federation. It’s the Spanish “me voy a…” — “I’m going to…” — left unfinished. A sentence without an ending. Much like the power these men are about to lose. The Calm Before the Coup The episode opens not in a boardroom but in a hallway. Sergio Jadue (Néstor Cantillana), the former Chilean FA president turned FBI informant, is pacing a Miami hotel room. He’s already flipped. Episode 5 ended with him signing a proffer agreement. Now, “WMA” shows us the cost: paranoia, sweat, and the mechanical act of fitting a wire. But the episode denies us the satisfaction of the arrest
— “me voy a…” — I’m going to… where? To prison? To history? To irrelevance?
Essential viewing. Bring antacids. Final Note: El Presidente Season 2 is streaming now on Amazon Prime. Episode 6, “WMA,” runs 52 minutes. No post-credits scene — just the sound of a stadium, empty and waiting.
In the pantheon of football scandals, the name “FIFA” has become shorthand for impunity. But El Presidente , Amazon Prime’s Spanish-language dramatization of the 2015 corruption implosion, has never been just about the arrests. It’s about the men who believed they were building a kingdom — and the women who watched them mistake a throne for a cage.