The criminal activities of football evolved almost entirely free until 2010. On the 2 December 2010, namely Russia and Qatar awarded FIFA World Cup respectively in 2018 and 2022, and it became clearer than ever that the culture of corruption in the football world had reached a boundless level. Corruption had become a part of the game and a sport press that until then had lived too close to these dark men in football, could no longer be blind to this obvious corruption. A stream of corruption scandals have been uncovered, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter went off as a result of corruption. But there are several scandals. Many more. We have hardly seen tip of the iceberg. Corruption exists in different forms.
1. World Championships in Qatar in 2022.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1392559/FIFA-cash-bribe-revealed-Bahamas-FA.html The biggest sports scandal in history – the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar is comical, considering that it is impossible to play football there in the summer because of the heat. But it is worse that it was signed trade agreements with several countries. Thailand got a favorable gas deal to give their vote to Qatar. In France, President of UEFA, Michel Platini, who was pronounced Qatar-skeptical, summoned to France’s head of Sarkozy where he should have been told that France had received orders for more Airbus aircraft from Qatar as well as munitions, against giving Qatar’s voice. Qatar will also have distributed over 30 million as lubrication to FIFA delegates via Qatar’s FIFA delegate Mohamed Bin Haman and former president of CONCACAF Jack Warner (have two sons in FIFA). In connection with money laundering were several FIFA delegates arrested ahead of the FIFA Congress in May 2015, the FBI thinks they are involved in corruption worth around 1.17 billion. Stadiums in Qatar is being built by slaves. So far, one slave died every day during construction work.
2. World Championships in Russia in 2018
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/31/england-boycott-2018-world-cup-andy-burnham England sought to get the World Cup in 2018, and claims that they were contacted by at least 4 FIFA delegates who would vote for England against payment. In the search process emerged a rumor that Spain would withdraw its bid if Russia could help with bribing judges during the World Cup in South Africa. More FIFA delegates suspected of corruption and laundering huge sums of money in connection with the award of the football World Cup to Russia that conflict with Ukraine and which have great difficulty tribune riot, and racism. Vladimir Putin should even have been involved, and FIFA President Sepp Blatter will be standing on the “payroll” to Russia. UEFA chief Michel Platini should have attempted been bought with a painting by Picasso.
3. Europol report on match-fixing in Europe in 2013
https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/results-largest-football-match-fixing-investigation-europe It was a sad day for European football as the EU’s police agency, Europol, announced the report on match-fixing in February 2013. It was determined that over 380 games in Europe between July 2011 and August 2013 were fixed. Including several qualifiers for the World Cup and European Championship, two Champions League games and several top-flight matches in Europe. In addition, Europol strong circumstantial evidence that many more than the 380 matches were fixed. Europol had concrete evidence, and one of his one can mention was Norway’s European Championship qualifier against Malta.
4. laundering scandal with Texeira, Havalange and ISL in 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2172190/Joao-Havelange-Ricardo-Teixeira-named-FIFA-bribe-case.html FIFA president Joao Havalange and FIFA member Ricardo Texeira was in 2012 accused of Swiss authorities for having received NOK 10 million (Havalange) and 83 million (Texeira) from marketing company ISL. Swiss authorities believe they received much more. The indictment was the “miraculous” show evaded by both paid authorities to avoid trial. Swiss police believe it is impossible that FIFA president Sepp Blatter knew about corruption.
5. EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine
http://www.soccerchris.com/2010/10/30/big-teddy-bear-in-marangos-vs-uefa-euro-2012-corruption-scandal Spyros Marangos from Cyprus Football Association have picture proof that it took large-scale corruption in the forefront of award of Euro 2012 via a Cypriot company. It should have been paid over 120 million in bribes to UEFA delegates, of which one of the payments should have taken place at that stuffed a teddy bear full of money before the delegate got it as a “gift“. Romanian UEFA delegate and president Mircea Sandu football should have got over 20 million to give their vote to Poland and Ukraine. In Poland http://www.dw.com/en/polish-soccer-plagued-by-cronyism-and-corruption/a-15980132 was not corruption in football anything unknown phenomenon, far from it. In 2008 did not contain GKS Katowice’s president Piotr Dziurowicz out longer and revealed widespread corruption in Polish football. Among other things, it was proved that the struggle between Krakow and Zaglebie Lubin was fixed so that Lubin could qualify for the UEFA Cup. Over 30 teams from the top leagues was convicted of corruption after the case was rolled up by the Polish police.
6. Italy before Euro 2012; Calciopoli scandal.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2116251,00.html A stream of corruption charges has unfortunately characterized Italian football. And ahead of the European Championships in 2012, during a national team, players were Domenico Criscito and Stefano Mauri arrested, while the other internationals got house arrest. FC team participation in Euro 2012 was under threat. Juventus coach Antonio Conte’s and very many more were picked up by police under suspicion of corruption. The scandal and the extent of corruption charges was so large that the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti jokingly suggested to lay down Italian football for 2-3 years to overcome the huge problem. Juventus were hit hardest when they lost their titles and had to down a division, while AC Milan and other clubs were lucky and got away. In Italy needed namely not dark men to find new channels for their business, for here there was already a fertile system that just needed a little “watering“. “Better two wounded than one dead,” said Gianluigi Buffon once and thought enough of all the draws results in Italian football.
7. FC Porto
http://www.craveonline.com/culture/140882-tapping-into-portugals-corruption-scandal Most Portuguese know that FC Porto are corrupt. The only reason that the club is still in the top league is that the phone tapped conversations between FC Porto, judges and representatives of the Portuguese football was not accepted as evidence of the Portuguese court. FC Porto’s president for the past 30 years, Pinto da Costa, ruled himself who should judge FC Porto their matches, and the calls can hear that judges are being offered “fruit” (prostitute) and that they are asked whether they want ‘milk or coffee “(white or black prostitute). It is not unknown player on the team, star player Deco, thrown in a fight his shoe at the judge, and FC Porto will have paid a newspaper to make a case where Deco stated that he would consider quitting the national team if he was punished. The consequence was that Deco released punishment for his scandalous behavior. Michel Platini tried in vain to deny FC Porto a place in the Champions League in 2005. But why has not FC Porto and Pinto da Costa has been stopped by the Football Association or the legal system in Portugal?
8. Marseille
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-scandal-leaves-a-stain-on-the-white-shirt-of-marseille-allegations-of-match-fixing-of-franc-1484695.html The French club had been doing great match-fixing in many years before they were revealed in 1993. In those years won Marseille top series every time as well as Champions League, before they lost all his titles and was sent down the league system. Arsene Wenger, then coach of Monaco, said that at that time he had a distinct feeling that it was going large-scale match-fixing from Marseille. Steward Bernard Tapie was jailed in 1995 for 3 years for their misdeeds. Later changed its “socialist” and former Minister of Radical Party of the Left political side and became part of Sarkozy’s apparatus, the party Union for a Popular Movement, during the French presidential elections in 2007.
9. Stasi and Dynamo Berlin
http://www.anoldinternational.co.uk/2013/03/lutz-eigendorf-traitor/ In 1978, said Chief of the Stasi, Erik Mielke, that it was time that Dynamo Berlin started winning Oberligaen in East Germany. And there they began to make thanks to strict control of judges. There was general political summits via Stasi who decided which judges would have to go abroad to condemn the battles for UEFA and FIFA. But Stasi also had strict control over their players, particularly in Dynamo Berlin, which was Erik Mielke’s pet and toy. Players who defected were persecuted, and one of them, Lutz Eigendorf, one midfielder called GDR Beckenbauer, who defected in 1979, was killed by the Stasi after signing for the west German club Eintracht Braunschweig.
10. Norway (NFF) constructed a U14 national team and gave it to a football agent
in 2003
https://www.fotball.no/Documents/PDF/…/NFF/internasjonal_bistand.pdf NFF in collaboration with ex Manchester United player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and a company he was co-owner (Dynamic Solution), where NFF put together an unofficial U14 national team, sent between 20 and 25 14- olds on “Solskjaer School”. In the rest of the world begins with the national team first at age 15. Dynamic Solution consisted essentially of football agents Jim Solbakken and John Vik, who were friends of Solskjaer and this’ U-14 national team “was really the main course at an exhibition where selected football agents came to the set table. Those agents that are shown here have now of course control in most Norwegian footballers, and when Joshua King (Bournemouth Premier League) his mother called NFF and asked for advice early Kings career she got the answer; “call agent Jim Solbakken.”
11. Edilson Pereira de Carvalho and Robert Hoyzen
http://esportes.terra.com.br/futebol/corrupcaonofutebol/interna/0,,OI681561-EI5477,00.html Bought judges is not a new phenomenon, but when the world-renowned Brazilian FIFA referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho was arrested was directly embarrassment for the then VM-ready host nation Brazil. The scandal was exposed in September 2005 and called Escândalo do Apito or “The Whistle Scandal“. Carvalho was convicted of having fixed 9 top league matches in Brazil. Around the same happened in Germany too, and it was only a few months before the World Cup was to kick off in the same country. Referee Robert Hoyzen http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/1-bundesliga/10-jahre-hoyzer-39389006.bild.html had fixed matches as a judge on the 2nd Bundesliga in a while, although several colleagues of him had already expressed their suspicion against him. It was worked extremely hard from both the German associated DFB and FIFA to get shushed down this scandal in the World Cup in Germany started.
12. Wayne Rooney’s red card in the Superbowl against Montenegro
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2045989/Wayne-Rooneys-father-uncle-Richie-arrested-football-betting-scam.html The same day that Wayne Rooney would play cap against Montenegro dropped the news that his father and uncle had just been arrested for having paid Motherwell player Steve Jennings a tidy sum of money to create the red card in the match against Hearts. What happens later that day is almost too incredible to be a coincidence. Wayne Rooney suffered a totally gratuitous red card when he kicked down Dzudovic 17 minutes before the end. It is not uncommon to put money isolated incidents during matches, something ex Southampton players Matthew Le Tissier and Claus Lundekvam previously told: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/6130280/Matthew-Le-Tissier-admits-being-part-of-attempted-betting-scam-at-Southampton.html
13. Large-scale match-fixing in Turkey, 2011
http://www.bbc.com/news/10217817 Summer 2011 was 61 people, players and coaches arrested after Turkish police had suspected match-fixing in 19 games played in the top two leagues in Turkey. Among other things, the Turkish Cup finals have been fixed. As a result of the enormous scale of corruption were given this matter considerable attention worldwide and UEFA and FIFA had to react. Fenerbache were kicked out of Champions League and Sepp Blatter said something that is interesting in relation to the FIFA scandal in May 2015: “We will suspend them for life. Then They Will never come back to football – being officials or being players, They Will be banned for life ”
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-250125-fifa-chief-blatter-calls-for-life-bans-for-match-fixers.html
14 World Cup in South Africa 2010 and construction of the Mbombela Stadium
The construction of this World Cup stadium was marked by allegations of corruption in the awarding of construction contracts. Several local politicians were highly critical of the way this matter was handled locally in South Africa, and it was their death. Six local politicians were killed as a result of that they commented on the corruption surrounding the construction of the Mbombela Stadium. South Africa shall otherwise according to US authorities, having paid around 80 million to UEFA delegates in lubrication to get the 2010 World Cup.
15. CONCACAF Gold Cup, match-fixing with El Salvador, Cuba and Grenada in 2011
http://www.insightcrime.org/news-analysis/soccer-match-fixing-scandal-rocks-el-salvador Summer 2011 discovered American investigators an unusual pattern in some betting companies. Investigations were created, and they found out that several matches were fixed. If one combines a 10 fold increase in gambling on these struggles from Asia that El Salvador lost 5-0 to Mexico and Grenada lost its three games totaling 15.1 and that Cuba lost its 3 totaling 16.1, then it is easy to understand that there were widespread match-fixing in this championship. Otherwise was El Salvador also involved in a scandal in 2013. Many players and football clubs to have fixed matches, several arrested said that they had been in contact with a man from Singapore they called “Dan Tan.” Fights that were fixed involved qualifiers for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
16. Corruption in Chinese soccer
http://www.economist.com/node/21541716 Where to start? Chinese football is so marked by corruption, cronyism and care of acquaintances up in one-party system that the usual Chinese hardly care about Chinese football. Several battles have looked comical outcomes that match the fixing is obvious. In a battle between Qingdao Hailifeng FC and Sichuan FC in September 2009, led the home team 3-0 just minutes before the end. The match was fixed to end with 4 goals in total. The home side’s defense began firing on their keeper, but the keeper was not informed that the fight was corrupt. Finally shouted coach keeper towards the midfield so they could get into it commanded itself the target, but the central defender who sent the ball high over his own keeper missed his own goal just before the final whistle blew the game. The coach was scolded skin full of club-owner, “you’re hopeless, you can even not to fix a football game!” In China, one could also buy himself a spot on the national team for 100,000 yuan via football president Nan Yong, and in 2007 told a judge that he was quite confused after being approached by so many different people from the Communist Party that would fix a specific game that he did not know what he should do.
17. Liverpool – Manchester United
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2275060/Manchester-United-Liverpool-incredible-match-fixing-scandal-1915.html Last match day in English top division in 1915 is remembered for corruption in the struggle between these two giants of European football. Manchester United had to win to avoid relegation. The fight was fixed, and 4 of Liverpool’s players were also involved. Manchester United won the match 2-0 and as a result of the pressure Chelsea down. The English FA associated thereby intervened. The players were indeed punished for life, but not the team Manchester United. The players actually got offered amnesty if they voluntarily joined and fought in WW1, which several of them accepted and one of them, Sandy Turnbull, were even killed during the war. FA expanded incidentally likely fine top series such that Chelsea did not have to be relegated.
18. 55-1 and 66-1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3500353.stm The local rivals Curtorim Gymkhana and Wilifred Leisure shared first place in the Indian 2.divisjon before last match day. Wilifred had however win his battle with seven goals to go past Curtorim on goal difference. To break led just 7-0 Wilifred of Dona Paula Sports Club, but Curtorim however, had taken it quite calmly against his opponent Sangolda Lightning. It must have happened something corrupt in the break which involved all four teams since it was goal bonanza in the 2nd half. Representatives of the two top clubs were on both stadiums and reported crazy by telephone, and the judges who blew had Wilifred won 55-1 while Curtorim won his match 66-1. They scored 121 goals thus totaling last matchday, 116 of them in 2.round.
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19. Greek football presidents and owners made for match-fixing in 2011
http://www.thepressproject.net/article/65820/The-alleged-corruption-of-Evangelos-Marinakis-and-the-press-that-refuses-to-report-on-it President of Olympiacos Volos Achilleas BeOS and Kavalas president Stavros Psomiadis were among the 15 within Greek football who were arrested in a major match-fixing scandal in Greece in June 2011. In addition, 70 unnamed people arrested. Once again there was wiretapping that was used by the police. The big difference in this Greek tragedy in relation to other European countries was that much of the corruption generated threats of very serious violence. As the case rolled off became more involved. Top teams like Olympiakos were involved and the president of the Greek Football Association should have fictitious which judges who judged certain matches. Even the press to have been bought and paid for.
20. The disclosure of extensive corruption in Romania and Eastern Europe in 1988
http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-17/sports/sp-9744_1_soccer-federation The authorities were forced to act by the audience began shouting “thieves – thieves” during soccer matches at stadiums around Romania in the late 80s. Referees, players and coaches were stopped on the way home from battle, and the police found, describes well a little of the situation in Romania was at the time. Cars were filled with firewood, live chickens and food products. Some football matches were marked by such strange events and decisions that the audience finally protested loudly. The Communist party in several 
countries intervene to calm down a development of the press was described as “an attempt to legalize corruption“. Otherwise, we can mention that the top series in South Korea, DR Congo, Vietnam, Albania, Poland, Malaysia and Colombia have been, or are affected by a lot of corruption and match-fixing.
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