Pinto confided in Buschmann. The following summer, Pinto approached William Bourdon, who specializes in whistle-blower cases, and asked him to broker a meeting. Four days later, Lobuzov e-mailed to say that his lawyer was waiting for Lucas to make contact. The following month, UEFA announced that, as a result of the Spiegel coverage, it was investigating Manchester City, the newly crowned English Premier League champions, for breaking its financial rules. I am not a rich person, so I could not go to a city like London or Paris, he told me. They were real documents.. Not just that, but according to Colin Gordon, English football is considered 'the dirty man of Europe'. Theyll be back, probably, but thats little consolation for fans of either club right now. Let's be honest though, with a name like that he was always going to be in the headlines. Porto, seeking seventeen million euros in damages. The club is the most successful team in the world in terms of domestic league championships won, with more than 50. The Bundesliga (Germany), Serie A (Italy), La Liga (Spain), and Ligue 1 (France) all have bunches of the world's top players from almost any country that plays soccer. 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. 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 . Although Pinto denies any involvement, he is widely seen as a figure of general, youthful rebellion in a country where other forms of activism have been absent. 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Im aware of that., The following week, Pinto had an extradition hearing at Budapests central courthouse. Maybe this word applies to me. YOU. Hundreds of thousands of people emigrated. These are, without question, the most embarrassing teams to support from Europes top divisions. To pass the time, he has been reading a book about espionage during the Second World War. After he returned to Budapest, Pinto resolved to move to France in February. On July 19th, Lucas had received a file named Players, supposedly from an official at F.C. You dont have to convince me that Pinto is at risk of one day being convicted as a hacker and for stealing information. Benfica is currently suing F.C. Better remembered by history as head of East Germany's notorious Stasi for more than 30 years until the fall of the Berlin wall, Erich Mielke also had his hands deep in East German football. When I have a source wheremaybe five or ten or fifty per centhe could be a hacker, it is totally impossible for us to ask him about documents, Buschmann said. When I visited him, in late February, he wore a Levis T-shirt, jeans, and an electronic tag on his left ankle. Jean-Yves Lourgouilloux, of the P.N.F., described Pinto as a whistle-blower and confirmed that the French authorities had looked at twelve million documents so far. England coach Steve McClaren's agent has turned up the heat in football's bung controversy . The second place is occupied by SSC Napoli (Italy). Benfica have found themselves in a mess that will surely see them wind up in court. But, in a small hotel near the city center, he met Rui Pedro Gonalves Pinto, a twenty-seven-year-old antique dealer with spiky hair, from northern Portugal. Activate your account. 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. We have managers earning 1m, 2m, 3m a year so why do they need to get involved in corruption? most corrupt football clubs in europesardinia water temperature celsius. There are hundreds of professional and amateur football teams in Poland; which are organized into the national 1st . They were framing the problems with too much accuracy, Varela said. to alter a series of contracts, in order to comply with UEFAs rules. But Varela was struck by the technical nature of the documents. It caused a kind of impact, Pinto said. Suffering is an essential part of the story that we Argentines tell about ourselves. The idea of a soccer Super League has been around since the late nineteen-eighties. Disqus. The list starts with Olympique Marseille with Juventus directly after them and their biggest rivals, Porto, coming in third. "Since the Premiership began, I would estimate that tens of millions of pounds have gone out of the game this way. 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. I have often had the feeling in the last months and years that I cant watch the game like before, he told me. He is also a hero to everyone who hates Benfica. 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'. 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. The contract was the seventy-seventh published by Football Leaks. describe it as a form of lending, but many fans believe that it gives investors too much control over a clubs roster and the shape of players careers, by influencing when and where a player might be traded. with football, Pinto said. Our I.T. The men discussed a possible contract between Doyen and Lobuzov, worth three hundred thousand euros over five years. Each day, I arrived at around 1 P.M., when Pinto had just got out of the shower. He stayed up late, online. In the middle of January, 2019, Pintos father and his stepmother, Elizabeth, visited him. entrerai a far parte della community di Calciomercato.com. It changed my life, he said, not entirely unhappily. He visited her in the hospital every day after school. He is a cat, Bourdon murmured. The investigation showed that Doyens staff had been the victims of a phishing attack during the summer of 2015, in which they received replicas of Dropbox folders from contacts at various soccer clubs. She didnt want to give it to me, instead she jerked me off. 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. Im happy man, and all good.. It was all in the data. And then you think, I would need to know the raw income in Ireland. Varela, a precise, watchful man in his early fifties, clicked on a link, which took him to a blog entry that had been created at 5:17 A.M. that day. Highlight of this match for me was in the first half when Jim Beglin said "Is this mediocrity?" A meeting was arranged for October 21st, near Lisbon. Rangers Football Club. Contracts in Portuguese, contracts in English, contracts in French, Varela told me recently, in Lisbon. At one point, his mind drifted to the various funds and middlemen implicated in the match. Pintos father, Francisco, designed dress shoes at a local factory. 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. Conscious that the police were listening in, Lucas floated the idea of Lobuzov coming to work for Doyen as an I.T. . Wulzinger showed me the paperwork for the transfer of Paul Pogba, the midfielder for the World Cup-winning French national team, who moved from Juventus to Manchester United for a hundred and five million euros in the summer of 2016. It is maybe something paranoid, he told me. We were in his apartment in Budapest. EBay at that time was an extremely awesome opportunity, Pinto recalled. Serie A's Most Expensive Teams. Back when you were young, the bad thing about Turkish opposition was fans setting off flares. Encouraged by the widespread reporting of sexual misconduct by powerful men and the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims, Mayorga hired a new lawyer, Les Stovall, who wrote to Pinto through an anonymous e-mail address, asking if he had any other documents. It was powerful, Varela said. The club faces a potential ban from the Champions League. Clubs ranked on theoretical points total (2 pts win, 1 pt draw, results after extra time count, all matches that went to penalties count as draw). Benfica denied it all: We maintain the firmness and clarity of our position, announced as soon as it became public knowledge of this situation, regarding the lack of facts that justify any accusation in this process.. But it is not clear whom he means by this, or whether such a group exists. By the end of the week, Football Leaks had posted confidential contracts from F.C. Since 2018, the Spanish Civil Guard (Guardia Civil) has been investigating two football agents linked to one of the most relevant player representation agencies in Europe. Pinto was taken to a detention center, where he asked to call his lawyer. It is a paradox of the worlds greatest sport that its results have become so boring. For me, it was totally stressful, Buschmann said. Sport Lisboa e Benfica seem like a pretty cool team. Portos communications director, we discussed the greatest recent figures in Portuguese soccer: Mendes, the agent; Mourinho; Ronaldo. Money above all. The transfer was cancelled and the money was returned to NetJets. You certainly wouldnt want that, right? When I asked Marques whether he considered returning the e-mails, he laughed. The first stories went live at nine on a Friday night. England coach Steve McClaren's agent has turned up the heat in football's bung controversy by claiming the majority of middlemen are corrupt. On the channel you'll find Scout Reports, Top 10s, Tactical Analysis, Funny News, Winners \u0026 Losers and Internet Reacts. On the other hand, we will make a decision to fix the good name of the club and for the damage caused," said an official statement. 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. The Football Leaks data showed that, in the summer of 2012, P.S.G. If he wanted it, he would probably be the best pupil from the class, but he was not.. They play in Lisbon (great), they have a massive stadium and theyve had players like Eusebio, Pablo Aimar, Simao Sabrosa and Angel di Maria. 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. consultant. Six weeks later, Buschmann flew to Budapest to meet him. deals, and a network of Argentine agents who used shell companies and straw men in the Netherlands to evade taxes. What did Lionel Messis wife Antonela Roccuzzo say about Shakiras song. Last updated at 08:40 28 September 2006. Be cool. These are, without question, the most embarrassing teams to support from Europe's top divisions. team worked on this for weeks, Buschmann said. For a long time, after Pinto was identified as the ringleader of the project, he denied his involvement and narrowly skirted arrest. I was totally electrified to get a hand on this data, he told me. A few days later, Buschmann noticed the same man, in a heavy gray coat, entering a bookstore in Mnster. 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. But most of the time he was not there. The scale of Football Leaksits totalizing naturehas brought about a novel anxiety among the sports fixers and dealers. Lucas and Doyen ultimately came to suspect a different reason that Lobuzov had broken off contact. identit. Berlin Football Club Dynamo, for those of you not fully up to date with your Cold War history, were the Bayern Munich of East German Republic. There are many different ways to attack a rival club. The company hired a Portuguese security firm to study its servers. Pinto digitized the records of the school library. But we can talk. A week after F.C. Twente had sold stakes in seven of its first-team players to a single investment fund, its president resigned. He had wondered whether they were connected to Football Leaks in some way. That December, Der Spiegel and the E.I.C. 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. But he was often disappointed by the media coverage, which reduced Football Leaks to a source of gossip about famous players. He said often to me, I will have a family, I will have kids, Buschmann said. Ronaldo, a five-time winner of the Ballon dOr, for the worlds best player, is a near-mythical figure in Portugal, and Pintos favorite player. The corruption is in the transfer fees. The following day, he received a transfer of 34,627 from a client account at Caledonian Bank, a small private bank in the Cayman Islands. In Budapest, Pinto was madly scrolling Twitter. Its also pretty great that a 42-year-old Gigi Buffon is still knocking about. Two days later, he paid a cell-phone bill of fifteen euros. One image had been taken in the previous half hour. 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. The message arrived early in the afternoon of September 29, 2015. He questioned whether Europes whistle-blowing protections were strong enough. For example, fans of one of Italy's most successful teams, Juventus Football Club (also known as "Juve"), have been dismayed by a series of corruption allegations. Here we look at some famous calls that might have gone another way, if V.A.R. ", Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Crystal Palace 0-0 Manchester United LIVE: Luke Shaw sends ferocious volley whistling past Vicente Guaita's post as Erik ten Hag's men push for the early breakthrough at Selhurst Park, Manchester United will NOT rush Jadon Sancho back too quickly after he returned to group training for the first time in TWO months on Tuesday with the England star left out of Erik ten Hag's squad to face Crystal Palace. The timing was propitious. Utopian, visionary, wishful thinker, fantasist, fantasizer, romantic, romanticist, dreamer. It was enough. 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. Pinto claims that he learned to read by listening to soccer commentators and matching the names that he heard against what was written on the players shirts. Pinto sometimes refers to real fans, who will demand a financial and moral overhaul of the sport, as the intended audience for Football Leaks. The first hard drives that Pinto gave to Buschmann contained around eighteen million files. When he appeared, led by two thickset Hungarian police officers, he looked like a student on a Eurail trip gone wrong. One presentation was called A Super League Scenario for Top European Football., A club director involved in the discussions told me that the plan was a negotiating ploy. He watched the History Channel and dreamed of becoming an archeologist. He drank a few beers. And Mielke wasn't backward in coming forward to ensure his team had the best of everything. When the judge ordered that Pinto and his data be handed over to the Portuguese authorities, Bourdon slapped his rollerboard suitcase in frustration. One evening in 2017, Buschmann was in a restaurant, watching Madrids two major clubs compete for a place in the Champions League final. Pinto was joined by a lawyer for Doyen and by Lucas, who was wearing a wire. In the following months, executives from seven powerful clubs, including Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United, and A.C. Milan, met twice to discuss potential formats for the breakaway league. 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. Pinto came from nowhere and he opened the eyes of millions and millions of citizens., In Portugal, Pintos return was front-page news. Internal e-mails from Manchester City suggested that club officials were massaging deals and supplementing them with funds from Sheikh Mansours holding company, Abu Dhabi United Group. Everything would be like a plastic thing. Pinto has studied the cases of celebrated leakers (his lawyer, William Bourdon, represented Snowden), and I often got the impression that he is trying to expand the definition of what a whistle-blower can be. The club state that the e-mail containing the Daily Mail's list was not of good enough quality to be broadcast. The defensive response to Der Spiegels stories made Pinto question the appetite of soccers regulators to clean up the game. While Rui Pinto sits in jail, his revelations are bringing down the sports most famous teams and players. 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. The stadium was full of cameras. In the evening, Buschmann took Pinto to the Gerteraum and showed him the problem. And when your team loses, it can be the worst feeling in the world. The magazines I.T. (Pinto told me that this was not the case; he read the messages only months later.). 20) West Brom. The experts, the real experts, get ignored. The best leagues are awash in Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern sovereign-wealth funds, and Chinese conglomerates. Pinto is five feet six inches tall. Lobuzov threatened Lucas with more damaging disclosures. Having fielded some of the all-time greats with the likes of Paulo Maldini and Franco Baresi, the Rossoneri are the tenth most successful European football club having won a total of 34 major . 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. Last November, in response to Der Spiegels stories about a breakaway league, fans in Germany mounted protests in stadiums across the country. Today, youve got a club, Istanbul Basaksehir, whose close ties to Erdogans government give it actual villain credentials. In the transcript, Mayorga was identified as Ms C: Question: Did Ms C ever raise her voice, scream, or yell? It was the first time he had used Intella. The video-assistant referee is a new addition to World Cup rules. Answers in the earliest version of the document appeared to corroborate Mayorgas account: X: She said that she didnt want to, but she made herself available. In the fall of 2016, Der Spiegel and its partners in European Investigative Collaborationsthe reporting consortium that has worked on Football Leakswere approaching the deadline for their first set of stories. By NEIL ASHTON. I suggested that perhaps his sources hadnt gone public because they didnt exist and that Football Leaks was the result of Pintos hacking alone. The Most Corrupt Football League On Earth HITC Sevens 517K subscribers Subscribe 239K views 2 years ago From the 2006 Calciopoli scandal to the 2015 investigation into FIFA and the. "We're not just talking about the 50,000 bungs Panorama were alleging. "I've encountered it once abroad when I was taking an international player to an Italian club and I was offered a suitcase full of money to make sure the deal went through. On October 3rd, four days after Pinto posted the first documents, Lucas received an e-mail in excellent Portuguese from someone calling himself Artem Lobuzov. They think they are untouchable. One transaction that Pinto pieced togethera loan deal between F.C. 10/03/2021. The end of 2015 was a heady, disorienting time for Pinto. 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. Pinto unearthed multiple versions of a twenty-seven-page transcript of an apparent interview of Ronaldo, identified as X, conducted by a member of his legal team, Paulo Rendeiro, about the alleged attack. Porto, the platform had focussed mainly on the sports larger leagues. They dont want the people to see the truth, he told me. How did he get away with it for so long?!?!? . For all Johns bravado, it was clear that Football Leaks was having problems. There was something in him, Buschmann told me. Following the images on Benfica TV, Porto executives naturally did not take the matter lightly and released a response. Toward the end of the meeting, when Doyens lawyer was in the bathroom, Lucas offered Pinto a million euros to reveal his clients name. But the story gained little traction. Sadly, Basaksehir recently terminated the loan contract of Arda Turan, whose own criminal activity involved firing a gun in a hospital after aggressively saying weird stuff to a pop stars wife. They play in Lisbon (great), they have a massive stadium and theyve had players like Eusebio. During the summer of 2016, the European Championship was held in France. I arrived early, with Buschmann. It was around 5 P.M. and Pinto hadnt yet eaten breakfast. He would not tell me how. On an overcast morning in March, I sat in the Gerteraum with Buschmann, his editor, Michael Wulzinger, and Nicola Naber, a researcher, who have been the principal custodians of Pintos data since the spring of 2016. In the following three years, Pinto supplied Der Spiegel with four terabytes of confidential information, more than eighty-eight million documentsa leak almost twice the size of the Panama Papers and sixty times that of Edward Snowdens. Together, they gave a sense of seeing the business of soccer for the first time. In an Instagram video posted two days after the story appeared, he described the reporting as fake news. The police had taken his DVR. Definitely not a guy you want to be your father-in-law!! Cyprus 59 points. Der Spiegel bought new servers and created a secure network to handle the data. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. JUVE SECOND, MILAN SIXTH -. Cristiano Ronaldo is struggling to hire a 4,500-a-month chef for his 17m home on the Portuguese Riviera because of his demands over cooking sushi and his other favourite dishes for himself and his family! The location had been chosen by the police. 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