Lobuzov said that journalists were desperate for him to share what he had. That December, Der Spiegel and the E.I.C. 9. In the spring of 2016, Pinto had discovered a company named Tollinn, in the British Virgin Islands, which Ronaldo might have been using to evade taxes that he owed in Spain. 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On July 19th, Lucas had received a file named Players, supposedly from an official at F.C. Historically, Rangers remain one of Europe's greatest clubs with huge domestic success, respectable European success, and an enormous fan base. The change in date of the World Cup to accommodate the awarding of hosting duties to Qatar has meant a change in the usual summertime tournament. I typed in the name Jordan Pickford, the current goalkeeper for the English national team. On January 20, 2016, Pinto published the transfer contract of Gareth Bale, a Welsh winger who had moved to Real Madrid from Tottenham Hotspur, in the summer of 2013, for a little more than a hundred million euros. He came very happy to class, Falco recalled. He would not tell me how. The warrant made no mention of the Benfica e-mails and the subsequent embarrassment for Portugals biggest soccer club, which Pinto was convinced were the real reasons for his arrest. You know, that Communist lot who had a thing for. In the middle of January, 2019, Pintos father and his stepmother, Elizabeth, visited him. It is the logical commercial end point for a sport in which a handful of teams currently dominate their domestic markets, but in many countries it would break more than a century of sporting tradition. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Tapie has also long been accused of bribery and paying people off by countless others. Maybe this word applies to me. The lawyers name was Anbal Pinto. Pinto became part of what is known as Portugals gerao rasca (generation in trouble). In 2004, when Pinto was fifteen, his team, F.C. We pretend we're holier than thou, but I've spoken to people over there and the English game is considered 'the dirty man of Europe'. Europe: number of top division football leagues in Europe from 2009 to 2016 Iceland: revenue breakdown of top tier football clubs 2015-2018, by source Israel: revenue breakdown of top tier . A driver picked him up from the airport and took him to a roadside caf on the A5 highway, around ten miles west of the city. The best leagues are awash in Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds, and Chinese conglomerates. In the following days, Lucas shared his conversation with Lobuzov with detectives from the countrys cyber-crime unit. He was then investigated over payments made to then UEFA president Michel Platini, banned for 90 days while the investigation was carried out, and later banned for eight years from all football activities, reduced to six on appeal. Theyll be back, probably, but thats little consolation for fans of either club right now. Pinto is being kept away from the other prisoners, for his own protection, but when he is allowed to exercise or to venture outside his cell he sometimes hears them yell his name, in what he takes to be encouragement. In Portugal, one of the most vehement critics of T.P.O. Its an interesting and laughable decision, as the Portuguese club is likely pointing the finger at rivals Porto, who are listed as the third most corrupt club. When Marques dropped me off at my hotel in Porto, he showed me his phone, which each day is deluged with messages from Benfica fans, promising to kill him. "Some of the people involved in the game haven't a clue. When I asked whether a Super League in European soccer was inevitable one day, the director replied, In a certain form, yes. He weighed the pros and the cons of the format. Gordon, a partner in Key Sports Management, admits he cannot provide any direct evidence but said: "Are agents corrupt? The club was fined a hundred and eighty thousand euros, and was banned from European competition for three years. And Mielke wasn't backward in coming forward to ensure his team had the best of everything. In 2016, Buschmann asked Pinto where his information came from, and he replied, Some of our sources do not realize that they are our sources. One afternoon with me, Pinto mused out loud about why none of his insiders had gone public. We can do what we want. (Manchester City denies all allegations that have originated from the Football Leaks data, saying, The attempt to damage the clubs reputation is organized and clear.), Der Spiegel also pursued a story about a long-rumored plan for Europes biggest clubs to leave their national leagues and form a closed, N.F.L.-style competition covering the Continent. The first stories went live at nine on a Friday night. Budapest was rich in ephemera from the industrial revolution and the early twentieth century, which the Pintos sold for ten or twenty euros per item online. "Let's say I buy a player from eastern Europe. According to the arrest warrant issued by the Portuguese authorities, he was being held on six charges, relating to the alleged blackmailing of Doyen and the hacking of Sporting Lisbon contracts in the fall of 2015. I was nearly to death, Buschmann told me. SUBSCRIBE to EURO FOOTBALL DAILY: http://bit.ly/EUROFDsubscribeChris \u0026 Pat go head to head in this weeks StatWars and find out who is the most corrupt club in history, the last Spanish player to win Ballon d'Or \u0026 who is the most card friendly referee! The leak is worse than you can imagine, he wrote. He worked at night, combing through documents page by page. For a long time, after Pinto was identified as the ringleader of the project, he denied his involvement and narrowly skirted arrest. In the spring of 2013, Manchester Citys chief financial officer, Jorge Chumillas, e-mailed one of the clubs directors, Simon Pearce, to check that it was O.K. In 2013, he pleaded guilty to as many as 10 criminal charges that included money laundering, wire fraud and other offences relating to taxes and banking. Thats a bad start, but the club also has on its payroll former Brazilian sensation Robinho, who has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual assault. The first documents released by Football Leaks related to a controversial investment model known as third-party ownership. In early June, Marques handed the Benfica e-mails to the police. Pinto sat at a desk next to the window. The first hard drives that Pinto gave to Buschmann contained around eighteen million files. Francisco Teixeira da Mota, Pintos Portuguese lawyer, told me that he expected prosecutors to try to add the theft of Benficas e-mails to the case. Mielke was president of the larger SV Dynamo sports club, but was a particular fan of BFC Dynamo, a club established from the earlier Dynamo Berlin. The site was taken down, but Pinto was shaken. He finds Hungarian winters hard at the best of times. Comments. "Before this accusation, Porto have communicated to the clubs involved that the list is false. We went shopping, Naber said. When I asked Falco whether he agreed with Pintos description of himself as a normal computer user, he said, No, and then repeated the word eight times. The list starts with Olympique Marseille with Juventus directly after them and their biggest rivals, Porto, coming in third. During the summer of 2016, the European Championship was held in France. For me, it was totally stressful, Buschmann said. Today, youve got a club, Istanbul Basaksehir, whose close ties to Erdogans government give it actual villain credentials. Get your Serie A news faster with our free app, donwnload it here: Salaries are secrets. The team in the Gerteraum decided to pursue two stories that had eluded European soccer journalists for years. In all the 121 years of league football in Scotland, the club never left the top flight. By Sam Knight May 27,. There was a double bed in the living room, where his parents slept, a table with a brown synthetic tablecloth, and some small, gaudy landscapes on the walls. entrerai a far parte della community di Calciomercato.com. Between clubs, its not only that we dont trust each other, a director of a top European club told me. The experts, the real experts, get ignored. This year Ukraine scored 26 of 100 and took 142nd place of 175 in the CPI by Transparency International. Even Trump-supporting Erling Haaland couldnt jazz up this paltry excuse for a sports team, whose official fan groups include Mega-Bullen, Unified Bulls, Rolling Bulls Lipsia, Bulls Club, Easy Bulls, Red Campus and (my personal favourite) Holy Bulls. But the contracts that Varela read on Football Leaks showed that Sporting Lisbon had entered into a secret, T.P.O.-like arrangement with an Angolan club named Recreativo da Cala. Buschmann left the room to make coffee. This project aims to show the hidden side of football. This time, the source simply posted the clubs e-mails, unedited, on a blog titled O Mercado do Benfica, or the Benfica Market. I just pretended that nothing happened and that is all, he said. Pinto refused. They want to be famous to say my name. Suddenly, he's on radio as the moral guardian of English football. For all Johns bravado, it was clear that Football Leaks was having problems. As he ran to make his train, a wiry older man with a passing resemblance to Clint Eastwood switched platforms, too. In 2017, prosecutors from Frances Parquet National Financier, an anti-corruption unit, had made contact with Football Leaks, inviting John to share his data. The problem was fixed. Pinto watched the game in a pub in Budapest. I know it was a nave attitude. In early November, Lobuzov announced that he was walking away. The data from the first transaction were garbled, but the second transfer appeared to have been executed at 5:46 A.M. on October 10th, from a computer-science lab at the University of Porto. Middlemen thrive. This is article is brought to you by Geostorm, in cinemas this October. Sport Lisboa e Benfica seem like a pretty cool team. But they struggled to compete and some huge names have slipped . When I asked Pinto if he had anything to do with the Benfica scandal, he denied it, in Pintoesque fashion: Ive never seen a statement from the police or the Portuguese authorities linking me to this. He worried that his gargantuan data set, of which Der Spiegel possesses only around fourteen per cent, might be lost or destroyed if it were handed over to the Portuguese police. Paoloni was allegedly considered to be a central figure in the organised fixes, himself going as far as drugging his own team-mates at Cremonese in order to fix one specific game. Bond: It looks bad but I don't take bungs, Do not sell or share my personal information. The tragicomic recent failures of Manchester United and Arsenal have parallels, in magnitude if not in style. One image had been taken in the previous half hour. They said, This is not an American movie, Pinto recalled. In truth though, supporting an unsuccessful team is much better than supporting a team thats just plain embarrassing. One evening, taking the subway in Hamburg, Buschmann realized that he was standing on the wrong platform. Its very, very difficult to characterize Rui, Mario Falco, Pintos high-school geography teacher, told me. Since 2016, Der Spiegel has partnered with media organizations in thirteen European countries to publish hundreds of stories, rewriting much of what was known about the soccer business and changing it in the process. Football Leaks was hosted by LiveJournal, a Russian blogging service, suggesting that it was the work of Russian hackers. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The following month, Banco Portugus de Negcios, a private bank, was nationalized amid allegations of fraud and money laundering, marking the start of the countrys financial crisis. Both Juve and Milan are now greatly concentrated on moving back among Europe's elite. , Zubair (@ZubiDoobiDoo) September 30, 2019. They decided to publish a list of the most corrupt clubs in Europe on the television show called "Pointed. Porto, seeking seventeen million euros in damages. Im aware of that., The following week, Pinto had an extradition hearing at Budapests central courthouse. Pinto took Buschmann to a Serbian restaurant to watch the game, and ordered a meat platter. Disqus. That lifetime ban was eventually overturned on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but bin Hammam was subsequently issued a second one in 2012 as a result of 'conflicts of interest' that emerged relating to his role as AFC president. Real Madrid and A.S. Roma were playing that evening. were preparing their second wave of Football Leaks articles. The location had been chosen by the police. In 2009, the shoe factory where Francisco had worked went bankrupt. When I asked Rui why he had hacked into Caledonian Bank, he told me that he copied about a terabyte of data from the banks servers, which he intended to hand over to European tax investigators. At that time, he had been preparing to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency, but was suspended when an investigation was launched into allegations he offered bribes for votes. Definitely not a guy you want to be your father-in-law!! The scale of Football Leaksits totalizing naturehas brought about a novel anxiety among the sports fixers and dealers. It will be like plastic, he said. signed a five-page sponsorship contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority for more than a billion euros. Last updated at 08:40 28 September 2006. Here's a look at seven of the most corrupt figures in football history. This is a war., Marques has a show on Portos TV channel, and in the weeks that followed he began to read the Benfica e-mails aloud on the air. They were framing the problems with too much accuracy, Varela said. The United Kingdom. On the channel you'll find Scout Reports, Top 10s, Tactical Analysis, Funny News, Winners \u0026 Losers and Internet Reacts. was Bruno de Carvalho, the president of Sporting Lisbon, who described it as a monster coming to football. FIFA, soccers global governing body, banned the practice in May, 2015. La tua registrazione quasi ultimata, ti abbiamo inviato una mail per confermare la tua The claims by Gordon, who played for Birmingham, Wimbledon and Swindon, come in the wake of the BBC's Panorama programme which attempted to uncover football's 'bung culture' and less than 24 hours after Ashley Cole's agent, Jonathan Barnett, was fined 100,000 and banned for 18 months for his part in the tapping-up scandal. That's where the money goes missing'. The public did not take notice of it.. When Buschmann travelled to Las Vegas to investigate the rape allegation, he saw the man again, watching from a parked Volvo. 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