FIFA qualifies as "non-illegal" infantino

FIFA rejects allegations concerning Infantino

The FIFA World Football Association has rejected allegations following the revelations of Football Leaks on President Gianni Infantino. On Friday, NRC unveiled in collaboration with the European research collective EIC that Infantino had actively helped UEFA Manchester City and PSG to bypass the regulations. According to confidential emails, it was agreed in 2014 that clubs continue to receive hundreds of millions of friendly parties.

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FIFA states in a comment that "nothing that has been published indicates that a law, rule or prescription has been violated. "The union claims to have received" several hundred "questions from journalists four weeks before the latest Football Leaks posts. According to the World Football Association, these media would have "ignored the facts that have fired the organization, twisted facts and truths".

Video: What is the EIC Research Collective?

Der Spiegel obtained the millions of Football Leaks documents and shared them with the European collective of EIC research journalists. NRC is part of the collective. But what exactly is EIC? A short introductory video of De Standaard :

Infantino, boss of FIFA: last row in the long row of football planes

Gianni Infantino is at the head of the FIFA 2016. When he took office, he promised to save football from the crisis in which he found himself. The corruption cases placed a bomb in front of the FIFA Board of Directors and resulted in the resignation of then President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini. The German Der Spiegel describes, from thousands of internal memos, that Infantino is only the next of a long series of despots that the World Football Federation wants to impose .

FIFA boss Infantino helped clubs get around the rules

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who had promised to make football a sport just when he took office, Secretly helped two of the richest European clubs to bypass the rules. In 2014, Infantino, then secretary-general of the UEFA European Football Association, had approved the fact that Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain would continue to receive hundreds of millions of friendly parties. This is clear from e-mails, contracts and other confidential documents.

Read Here How Infantino Helped PSG And Manchester City Bypass The Rules

A Super League With The Biggest Clubs Of Europe

Start With A Glimpse Of The First Stories That The NRC publishes this weekend on the basis of Football Leaks:

Under the pressure of the big clubs, UEFA has reformed the Champions League. The best competitions had even more fixed places and a larger share of revenues. The big clubs threatened to create their own Super League, where the best teams face each other. A catastrophic scenario that UEFA expects to have ruled out of the reform. Behind the scenes, however, work is still going on in a Super League. Dutch clubs are threatening to fall outside the boat, despite pressure from Edwin van der Sar.

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Slowblog on football leaps

Welcome to this slow blog about football leaking. In the coming weeks, NRC and the European Network of Investigative Journalists will publish EIC on the dark world behind international football. "Fake games" is the recurring theme in these stories about billionaires who inject unauthorized money into clubs and unfair competition, thus strengthening the power of big and small behind.

The German weekly Der Spiegel got the data on a Football Leaks whistleblower platform and shared it with the international network of EIC investigative journalists, of which the NRC is a member. Eighty journalists from fifteen media searched
months of 3.4 terabytes or more than 70 million new documents on international football. It is known that this is the biggest data breach ever recorded.

NRC will focus on the participation of the Netherlands in Football Leaks in the coming weeks. At the international level, however, many other stories are published by international partners. In this slow blog, we will talk about the most beautiful stories, the most important news and information about Football Leaks in the weeks to come.

What Football Leaks means exactly and how this collaboration is born is explained in this statement.