Pinto came from nowhere and he opened the eyes of millions and millions of citizens., In Portugal, Pintos return was front-page news. NEW YORK Two former Fox executives went on trial Tuesday, accused of bribing South American soccer officials for TV rights to one of the continent's biggest . Tapie has also long been accused of bribery and paying people off by countless others. Pinto followed the Portuguese team, captained by Ronaldo, obsessively. The United Kingdom. Supporters of other clubs refer to Benfica as the Octopus and to the supposed shadowy nature of its influence in Portuguese society as Benfiquisto, or Benficastan. signed a five-page sponsorship contract with the Qatar Tourism Authority for more than a billion euros. During the afternoon, he insisted that Buschmann take him to see Hamburger S.V., the local Bundesliga team, play a match. Its normal, Ronaldo said. As he ran to make his train, a wiry older man with a passing resemblance to Clint Eastwood switched platforms, too. On the channel you'll find Scout Reports, Top 10s, Tactical Analysis, Funny News, Winners \u0026 Losers and Internet Reacts. Formerly the chairman of the Qatar Football Association and later president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Mohammed bin Hammam was issued a life-time ban by FIFA's ethics committee in 2011. He would not tell me how. Gordon, a partner in Key Sports Management, admits he cannot provide any direct evidence but said: "Are agents corrupt? It was a rape case. The documents included a settlement agreement, signed on January 12, 2010, between a Ms P and Mr D, in which Ms P was paid three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. When the judge ordered that Pinto and his data be handed over to the Portuguese authorities, Bourdon slapped his rollerboard suitcase in frustration. (Pinto told me that this was not the case; he read the messages only months later.). I arrived early, with Buschmann. If you love European football as much as us then don't forget to subscribe!Follow the Football Daily Twitter: http://bit.ly/YaRzluLike the Football Daily Facebook: http://on.fb.me/10pugRrFollow The Football Daily on Google+: http://bit.ly/10pRPdT I have often had the feeling in the last months and years that I cant watch the game like before, he told me. You need thick skin to support these embarrassing teams. On September 13th last year, two weeks before Mayorgas interview appeared, Sbado, a Portuguese magazine, named Pinto as the source behind Football Leaks and the prime suspect in the release of the Benfica e-mails. On Friday, October 11th, Pinto received a second windfall from Caledonian Bankthis time from an account belonging to NetJets, the private-jet-rental companyof 227,332.80. 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There are many different ways to attack a rival club. Marques never heard from the source again. It was no secret, he said. Pinto was released under house arrest. The European football team with the highest midpoint enterprise value in 2022 was Real Madrid, with approximately 3.2 billion euros, followed closely by Manchester United with 2.9 billion euros . You certainly wouldnt want that, right? But we can talk. Lobuzov said that journalists were desperate for him to share what he had. Thats probably got something to do with the 35 league titles, and also with memories of, Theyve bought some of the best and most expensive players in the world, at least one of whom, The Carlos Tevez billboard was obviously great banter, and cynical ploy or not the Hacienda-themed. It caused a kind of impact, Pinto said. Bond: It looks bad but I don't take bungs, Do not sell or share my personal information. Pintos face was on the cover. Since 2013, under a set of regulations known as Financial Fair Play, European clubs have had to balance their expenditures against their income from soccer-related sources in order to take part in UEFA competitions. European teams using Premier League spending as benchmark. For all Johns bravado, it was clear that Football Leaks was having problems. Anyone else have the feeling that we haven't seen the last of Blatter in football?! Or one that was bankrolled by Theresa May. Ronaldo has protested his innocence throughout. You sit here thinking, What would I need to know? Naber told me. Fans learned that Jorge Jesus, the coach of Sporting Lisbon, was earning five million euros a seasonan extraordinary salary for the Portuguese leaguewhile other files confirmed rumors and disclosed hidden investors. He asked Pinto about his clients hacking abilities. 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. People may think we are hackers, we are only regular computer users, John said. I really dont consider myself as a hacker, he told me. It was around 5 P.M. and Pinto hadnt yet eaten breakfast. A week after F.C. 20) West Brom. He said often to me, I will have a family, I will have kids, Buschmann said. The club was fined a hundred and eighty thousand euros, and was banned from European competition for three years. Jean-Jacques Eydelie was the individual asked to make the connection as he had previously played with some of the Valenciennes squad at Nantes. He quit under immense pressure from years of corruption allegations, relating to everything from black market ticket sales, bidding processes, television rights, fraud and mismanagement. published their first Football Leaks stories. Whether it be the corruption that appears to be endemic in FIFA, the bribing of referees in Italy or the amount of money paid to agents by football clubs, corruption and greed can be seen almost everywhere you look in the football world . Both Juve and Milan are now greatly concentrated on moving back among Europe's elite. He excluded personal gossip and salacious material, and focussed on evidence of Benficas attempts to control the Portuguese game. Comments. Im happy man, and all good.. It was only when the man sat near him in a restaurant in Berlin, three hundred miles east, that he was sure he was being followed. I think the attached images will suffice, the source wrote, including screenshots of three Benfica officials in-boxes. 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Pinto didnt have that problem. Its crazy. (Last June, after pleading guilty to tax fraud in Madrid, Ronaldo was given a two-year suspended jail sentence and fined almost nineteen million euros.). In 1901, the same FA imposed a maximum weekly wage of 4 per player in even the top football clubs. It changed my life, he said, not entirely unhappily. He came very happy to class, Falco recalled. England coach Steve McClaren's agent has turned up the heat in football's bung controversy by claiming the majority of middlemen are corrupt. Monumental Champions League collapses against Barcelona (2017) and Manchester United (2019) mean you dont even fear or envy the mega-rich club. They decided to publish a list of the most corrupt clubs in Europe on the television show called "Pointed Spears". Yeah, he replied. Fifa, football's world governing body, has been engulfed by claims of widespread corruption since Swiss police raided a luxury hotel in Zurich and arrested seven of its top executives. Rui Pinto leaked more than eighty-eight million documents from the sports insiders. But they struggled to compete and some huge names have slipped . The information provided by Pinto has led to the conviction of dozens of top soccer players for tax evasion. (The two men are not related.) JUVE SECOND, MILAN SIXTH -. Only a few pink Post-it notes remained on the glass wall next to Nabers desk: Write; Confront; Write; Confront.. In the last months of the Benfica Market, which has gone quiet since Pintos arrest, the blog took on a broader, anarchic quality, posting e-mails from one of Portugals largest law firms, and also secret judicial documents. EBay at that time was an extremely awesome opportunity, Pinto recalled. Get your Serie A news faster with our free app, donwnload it here: JUVE SECOND, MILAN SIXTH - Not only have Porto, Benficas historic rival, made the list, but there are also several Italian clubs appearing as well. 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 . 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. It will be like plastic, he said. In March, 2016, a Web site called Football Leaks: Revealed briefly appeared, naming Rui Pinto as the source and publishing his photograph. The leak is worse than you can imagine, he wrote. Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, and Uefa are working together to . "Some of the people involved in the game haven't a clue. Brazilian law means he cant be extradited. The police had taken his DVR. Pinto had worried about being publicly identified, and about how best to defend himself, for some time. 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. This January, the highest fee spent by a non-Premier League club from a major league has been the signing of Cesar Montes by La Liga outfit Espanyol, who paid 8m to bring him in from Mexican side Monterrey - 1m less than the fee Chelsea paid Atletico to loan Joao Felix for five months. Real Madrid and A.S. Roma were playing that evening. The name of the character was Rui Pinto, the Hacker. training, he has managed to obtain, and interpret, information that European tax prosecutors and investigative journalists have sought for years. On January 3, 2016, the group finally responded: What is your problem with football? 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. We betray each other constantly. Last season, according to the accounting firm Deloitte, European soccer had revenues of twenty-eight billion dollars, about the same as Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the National Football League combined. The Portuguese media harried him, and his Facebook page rapidly filled with threats from Benfica fans. Fresh documents were pouring into Football Leaks from law firms, clubs, and agents. Pintos father, Francisco, designed dress shoes at a local factory. But he never followed through. These younger people, twenty-five years or less, have to tell themselves this is not going to work, Filipe Carreira da Silva, a sociologist at the University of Lisbon, who has studied the economic crisis, told me. It's laughable. Bourdon was there, wearing a long green overcoat. This is article is brought to you by Geostorm, in cinemas this October. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz -/5-RATE QUIZ. How football's volatile 48 hours unfolded The 12-team Super League, set up by the seven afore-mentioned teams and Spain's Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy's AC Milan and. He questioned whether Europes whistle-blowing protections were strong enough. At tense moments, his face broke into a disarming smile. One of the ways that clubs make money is by buying and selling players. What else can I say? he added. He finds Hungarian winters hard at the best of times. "Simon Jordan sells a mobile phone company and nobody bats an eyelid. This time, the source simply posted the clubs e-mails, unedited, on a blog titled O Mercado do Benfica, or the Benfica Market. In 2011, Portugal accepted a bailout from the International Monetary Fund. #top10 #shorts#ytshorts#youtube shorts#fifa #america #europe #africa #brazil #argentina #top #trending #viral #viralvideo Real Madrid (Spain) is third, while Manchester City from England and Arsenal from England complete the Top 5 from the continental best. member states are almost always routine affairs. "Let's say I buy a player from eastern Europe. During the intervening decade, Porto had found it impossible to match the spending of the biggest clubs, in Germany, Spain, and England, or of trophy assets, like Paris Saint-Germain, which had been acquired by the Emir of Qatar. There were many dirty things, Marques told me. Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes. This year Ukraine scored 26 of 100 and took 142nd place of 175 in the CPI by Transparency International. The United Kingdom. . It appeared to include an internal media-briefing document belonging to Benfica, F.C. Money scores goals, as the German saying goes. Porto and Benfica, Portugals biggest teams; Olympique Marseilles, a leading French club; and F.C. Since 1955, the best teams from each country have played against one another, and that has given rise to a dense intermingling of tactics, feuds, and money. The problem was fixed. "Over here, you will never catch a manager talking directly about it. How Football Leaks Is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his revelations are bringing down the sport's most famous teams and players. Together, they gave a sense of seeing the business of soccer for the first time. At the beginning of 2018, Pinto had given Buschmann more hard drives, which brought the number of documents in the Intella database to more than seventy million. Rui Pinto told me that he posed as Artem Lobuzov to check that the documents he was posting were real. 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. identit. Welcome to Football Leaks, it read, in Portuguese. with football, Pinto said. All rights reserved. Pintos hard drives, which are heavily encrypted, are what he hopes will eventually secure his freedom. (The name belongs to a Russian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 2012 Olympics.) They said, This is not an American movie, Pinto recalled. Equipped with usernames and passwords, the hacker had ordered the transfers to a Deutsche Bank account in Lisbon registered to Rui Pinto. Mesut zil, an ethereal German playmaker for Arsenal, the team that I support, generated eighty-six hundred and twenty-nine. "It's not a case of a little extra for a drink any more. The club is the most successful team in the world in terms of domestic league championships won, with more than 50. By mentioning the bank hack, Anbal Pinto had given the investigators a valuable clue. The first hard drives that Pinto gave to Buschmann contained around eighteen million files. In late November, after Football Leaks revealed that F.C. Red Bull Salzburg are the same, only worse. Pinto alerted Buschmann, who was at work on a book about Football Leaks with Wulzinger, and writing at home in Mnster, a two-and-a-half-hour train ride from Hamburg. Back when you were young, the bad thing about Turkish opposition was fans setting off flares. He's been all over the world attending seminars for that insight and probably got the best seats at the World Cup.