Dirty Football Business: When Humans Become Commodities | ENDEVR Documentary

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between PSG and Marseille even if you

can't stand it

you

have to admit there's something

comforting about football

this wonderful world where there is no

crisis where money flows like water

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the porters viewers players

Millions sacrifice their meager revenues

for the great God of football

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Leon's supporter spends an average of

600 euros a season to follow his Club so

there's enormous potential for a club

like Marseille with 13 million

supporters

matches TV writes the spin-offs anything

goes in football

Santa Chen's toasters Leon's aftershave

psg's brushes or Bordeaux slippers

in France alone the turnover in soccer

is 5 billion 400 billion worldwide

but who is profiting from all of this

come on then bring your boots and shin

guards and let's go for a stroll on the

pictures of football business you'll

discover how in less than 15 years the

sport has become one of the most

deregulated markets on the planet where

it seems anything goes our financial

exploitation of child footballers how

out of control speculation by investment

funds that buy into soccer players risks

ruining the sport

and how in the Stadium's back offices

play as agents have now overshadowed

even the club Owners as The Game's new

power Brokers

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football those who speculate cheat and

corrupt risk destroying your favorite

playing field

so mum and dad haven't you ever dreamed

of your son becoming the next Zidane

like madine karogli a young French

player already a prodigy at 11 years old

his technical skills have been viewed

over 20 million times on the internet

even the great arsene Wenger the manager

of Arsenal is impressed

the amazing little Talent lives in Ruby

in northern France living and breathing

football but madine is also a potential

gold mine

come here a second

about 60 reports in various languages

have made their way onto the internet

the cameras surround him his parents say

ours will be the last as medine is close

to overdosing

what do you think about seeing yourself

all over the internet

you don't like it much what's the best

thing about football

I don't know

would you like to be left alone for a

bit

we try and be as discreet as possible

but Ian's life is hardly normal

a juggling exhibition in Dubai a Gala

event in Hong Kong

everyone wants a photo everyone wants a

piece of him

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we're philosophical about it but it can

be quite scary

he's still little after all right but

yes at some point well

um you know but ends he's 11 now so it's

time to be serious

and it is beginning to get serious for

made very serious clubs agents and even

a well-known multinational mistaken big

on the 11 year old's future

here's the parental dilemma how to

protect their child while letting him

loose in the arena

especially when that arena is Barcelona

the famous basa team spotted madin early

on he's due to attend trials and then

join their Youth Academy

FC Barcelona one of the most successful

clubs in the world boasting such stars

as messy Chavi and Iniesta

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300 million supporters across the world

and a turnover of almost 5 billion euros

the karoglies gave us permission to

follow young madin as he arrives for the

test in Barcelona it's just like a

business deal

the youngster is not greeted by someone

from the soccer club but by Dubai

businessman

how are you good all right yes good

thanks

how are you yeah

how's the champ

when he saw madin on the internet

al-zajali sensed a good deal he

contacted agents for Spanish footballers

as well as the carogly family

yeah this is the training center just

close by

is this for the professionals no just

for the kids

the family settles into a hotel

zajali was the person who set up madin's

trial at Barcelona investing in an 11

year old child seems to pose no problems

for him

football is it's a business football is

something that you invest for example we

have some real estate that we bought 10

15 years ago and and we still have them

and as an investment plan so for us

madin is something that is an investment

it could be a perfect property it could

be a normal property or madin at this

rate that he's developing We Believe 16

17 maximum he will be having uh you know

market value an interview with holding a

shirt someday for sure

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promises to be the jackpot

according to al-sajali investing in the

young player could be more profitable

than property as an expert in the

building sector he knows what he's

talking about

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the businessman made a fortune from his

company Santos cranes which supplied

Machinery to building sites

his own team consists of in defense the

JLG 600 diesel-powered boom lifts in

Midfield there's the tough cke 200

caterpillar cranes

and the star player is the qy 25c truck

equipped with a crane that can lift up

to 25 tons

he likes his team sports does Mr Samara

welcome to Barcelona

we've learned more about him the medin's

parents apparently Fatima his mother

doesn't really know where to start

yeah I wanted to ask you something what

is your business actually it's corporate

events

management management

ah management we know that

long time ago we want to make it uh from

a dream to reality you know

so like from dream to to reality

no you might not have noticed but

suddenly the mood changes Muhammad

madin's father seems tense

please turn off the camera if you show

this on the TV it will cause all sorts

of speculations and it won't be helpful

it's confidential see

confidential in taboo because now the

carogly family and the businessmen are

about to talk money

France such negotiations are illegal to

avoid child exploitation an agent is not

allowed to make money from an underage

player

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a contract that deals with sports

activities for minors cannot in any

circumstances result in any remuneration

or compensation in Spain however there's

a legal vacuum luckily for him the Dubai

businessman can get the coroglies to

sign on the dotted line

we managed to get a copy Samad

al-zajali's company proneo Sports offers

to act as the agent for two years

in exchange for its help and its

contacts preneo Sports will take a

commission on any future professional

contract 10 if madine signs for

Barcelona or any club in Spain 20 in all

other countries

to sign up the most gifted young players

the big clubs are ready to spend up to

200 000 Euros which would come to 20 000

Euros in Commission falz ajali's Company

the first contract effectively binds the

player to his agent promising many long

and profitable years ahead

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you might think football's always been

like that but it hasn't

just ask Lillian Turan part of France's

1998 World Cup winning team

he's scaring me actually yeah you're

telling me there are 12 year old kids

who have an agent that's a problem did

this go on in your day

honestly I don't think so I don't think

so and I think it should be banned

if there are agents for 12 or 13 year

old kids it means there are clubs that

are willing to deal with them

and say you know make a deal for the

youngster we like him

such as this gentleman Michelle Zamora

the French talent scout for FC Barcelona

he set up the trials for Nadine and is

one of the Dubai businessmen's contacts

with a club

hands the torch over to him as he needs

to get back to his Machinery no time to

attend medin's trials we might be able

to talk football now with Michelle

Zamora

you're passing the entrance this is

FC Barcelona's training center it's a

bit like the club's research laboratory

so no filming

no pictures it's banned there are guards

around and they'll spot you straight

away

time to switch to a far more discreet

camera

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is the world's most famous football

school

three quarters of FC Barcelona's

professional Squad were trained here its

basa's industrial Secret

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an eight-year-old from Japan the

youngest Foreigner bosser has ever

signed up

naturally the Spanish media has already

dubbed him the Japanese Lionel Messi

isn't it a little young

well it's not too young if the player

has genuine Talent

it's

interesting to have them when they're

still little to shape them in our image

our culture our playing culture it's

important as far as these kids are

concerned I'm like Father Christmas

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very generous this Barcelona Father

Christmas but the biggest present isn't

for the kids but for the club

by signing up 12 year olds it's a

guaranteed way of making big money if

the player later signs for another club

for 12 to 13 year olds

so FC Barcelona would stand to make 90

000 Euros when one of its chicks decides

to change clubs after one year of

training

that's how it breaks down let's say

madin enters bars at age 12. so if 2017

he signs his first contract with another

club basa would make 90 000 Euros a year

times five years which comes to 450

000 Euros

450 000 Euros compensation for Barcelona

a good amount very good actually

so the younger you take on the player

the more money you make in any transfer

exactly so that's why age is so

important it's all a factor now then oh

yes of course

it's an important Money Maker for the

club sure

but wait there's more the clubs by

picking their recruits so young stand to

gain for another reason during a

professional's long career the club that

trained them makes up to five percent on

each subsequent transfer

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take the former basa player Thiago Mota

a defensive midfielder since leaving the

club in 2007 he's played for Atletico

Madrid for Genoa and Inter Milan before

moving to Paris Saint-Germain

every time he changed clubs Barcelona

got their share totaling more than 710

000 Euros

it's one of the secrets of the

professional clubs their alibaba's cave

by taking on a player as young as

possible it assures a comfortable income

throughout his entire career

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such are the financial Stakes that weigh

heavily on the 11 year old shoulders of

Nadine and on his agent and the club

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training time

the pressure increases as in just a few

minutes the boy faces the trials to

become a team member

serious stuff starts here

Nadine is nervous if he fails it's adios

Barcelona

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despite his dad's encouragements the

youngster seems overwhelmed by the

occasion and fails to match his usual

standards

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's anxiety poses a problem

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the trainer says he needs to relax he

told me he was trembling in the changing

room

before signing him Barcelona wants to

give medin another trial a year later

in the meanwhile his parents will do

what they can to protect him from the

financial pressure and from the media

attention

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with a Dubai investor a sponsor and the

clubs that want him is madine at 11 an

exception

in France players with his skills might

end up here at the National Training

Institute at Claire Fontaine near Paris

it's the most prestigious soccer school

in the country

all the greats have attended Thierry

Henry Nicola nelka Blaise matowidi

William gallis

today the Hope Falls for entry selection

are being put through their paces we

wanted to see if here too the business

of football is making an impact

the entrance

no you have no permission to film

according to the federation's Press

office uh nope uh pull up over there

please I'll I'll show you Martin uh

right that's me there you see the uh the

Press Officer says no journalist or

cameraman to report about what's

happening no access for any of you

oh well that's what happens if you work

for cash we'll never be granted access

to film inside the Institute and we'll

tell you why using our secret camera

helps explain the story of the 1012 year

old players hoping to be chosen for the

25 available places

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the training program here lasts for two

years after which the players will sign

for professional clubs around the pitch

fathers mothers and the recruiters for

the big clubs are allowed to be here and

so in fact are all the top people in the

business notably the players agents

that's listening

we are both of them are useless when he

comes out he says nothing he's got no

vision the number seven though well you

know the guys will work him hard you'll

see I bet his family they're not dwarves

yeah it's not bad

real poets but there's a slight problem

remember the French law that forbids

Agents from signing up an underage

player or even through his parents for

money well that's why the Institute

doesn't give agents the right to attend

the selection process

were you able to get in

parking nearby Two Italian agents are

also negotiating

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the best player to buy the young players

if you want a good quality if you want

good quality you have to buy them now

yes

and a little further on here's a con

artist

he has no license from the French

Football Federation to be an agent it's

as if your doctor had no qualifications

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are there any kids that you're already

following yeah there's one kid I'm

keeping an eye on which one

as cool as you please without a license

the fake agent could end up in prison he

wouldn't be the first including one man

who was sentenced for child trafficking

this is a good age to sign them up or

should they be younger

oh I look for them at this age I need to

get in before the recruiters arrive why

what if you're late the kid will tell

you I've already signed with a club I

don't need you so you need to be the

first to be useful then exactly

the picture may be getting clearer in

order to be helpful and run a successful

business the agent needs to make his

move very quickly

you'll make his money later when he gets

the youngster to sign professional forms

with a club

Claire Fontaine is the ideal place to do

business on the left a scout for a club

on the right another unlicensed agent I

have one player who's at more room the

one that was here this morning

yes I think it's the best of the lot yes

he's interesting the Scout leaves his

business card with a fake agent

the scouts from the big clubs tried to

spot the obvious Talent early to sign

them up when they graduate from the

training institute

one of them explains the tricks of the

trade to get the parents on board

they give us a lump sum which officially

is very expenses

but between you and me it's a cover

when you say it's a cupboard does that

mean you still need to account for it oh

the money has been for school fees if

the kid is 13 and spends two years at

clairform 10 the money goes to his

parents uh it costs 7 000 Euros to send

a kid to this uh Institute and the fee

goes up after 15 presumably or as much

as 50 000 Euros when a 15 year old signs

up according to our sources then the

amount could rise to 200 000 Euros

let us leave the wonderful world of

children and step into that of adults

desire for players and the lack of

effective controls ends in footballers

becoming a financial investment scheme

for your entry fee or season ticket to a

club you may well be financing an

obscure investment fund that has

Financial interests in players and rival

teams which could lead at worst to match

fixing and at best to financing agents

who are not against taking legal

shortcuts

from up in The Terraces do you know who

you're

season mangala played with standard the

age in Belgium he consistently played

well what a gold magnificent it's

mangala

the summer of 2011 standard liege senses

there's money to be made and decides to

sell its young star

if you were the players

are about to sign with FC Porto once

they've passed tomorrow's medical

examinations

the doctors carefully inspect eliakin

mangala and give the all clear

then it

the Portuguese club purchases the

defender for 6.5 million euros

announcing that if they ever sell him it

would be for at least 50 million euros

eight times as much

good added value for Porto

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a Portuguese club listed company is

competing in the Champions League the

most important and lucrative of All

European tournaments

but on the 6th of December 2011 despite

This Magnificent goal

FC Porto is knocked out in the group

stages farewell to extra income from

ticket sales goodbye to the 22 million

euros prize money for the tournament

winner

the following day the value of FC

Porto's stock tumbles

the club needs an urgent injection of

cash

and three weeks later the club announces

it will sell a one-third share of eliaki

mangala for two million 647 059 euros

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Share value recovers all its lost ground

and investors are relieved

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the new owner of 33.33 of eliaki mangala

is the Dwayne Group which specializes in

the extraction of uranium coal and gold

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one third of the career of the young

footballer is now in the hands of the

mining group

did you know players can belong to

investment funds

football's come a long way

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we don't have the means to buy part of

any player for future teams at Cash

investigation but we could just about

afford this cardboard silhouette which

costs 35 Euros

player know who he belongs to

after all it is his body his head and

his legs it's worth a trip to Porter to

ask him

gentlemen we have just landed at Porto

Airport

and in Porto the player has agreed to an

interview

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should we sit over that

15 minutes with his sponsor's ads as

background and under the watchful eye of

FC Porto's Communications officer

o eliaki mangala his cardboard effigy

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so we found out that FC Porter has sold

part of your financial rights to an

investment fund called Dwayne that

specializes in uranium coal and gold

mining

I wanted to ask if you were aware of

that or not no no I didn't know about

that I saw it in the media later

no I just saw it one morning on the

internet

I read what had happened

but I hadn't been told about it

beforehand or anything like that

you feel sometimes like a financial

product people can speculate

well yeah we are Financial products

every day clubs are like factories and

the players are the product

there's no question about it we are

products which you can people can

speculate on stuff yeah of course you

need to be realistic

we wanted to find out a little more

about the Dwayne group

on its website the investment fund

profiles the 23 players it owns

among them there's aliaki mangala and

another French International Jeffrey

condogbia

all are promising young players

Dwayne has invested an average of 10.5

million euros in each of them

yet one question remains how much profit

is there in investing in a footballer

we tried getting hold of Dwayne

management for months impossible

but one day we went along to their

operational HQ in London

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Splendid building in the heart of the

capital's Financial quarter

by coincidence one of the managers we

had been in touch with was just coming

back from his lunch break

a French supporter nice to meet you we

are we were we talked on the phone yes a

few days ago you remember okay we were

we were here to uh ask for an interview

with someone from Dwayne no can I can I

ask you a question

like real quick it's just I just want to

know if if during Capital why Dragon

Capital invest in football that's the

only thing sir it's a simple question is

it more

uranium you can't yeah

thank you

yes uh questions to Dwayne's management

are a little radioactive the new fashion

of investment funds snapping up players

is very controversial

after all footballers are not racing

horses they are human beings just like

you and me and in theory no human can

belong to an investment fund

besides it's strictly forbidden in

France and Britain

but not in the rest of Europe

not very ethical is it

true but it is profitable

forget about your typical Banks interest

rates

invest and said in Decor the Portuguese

midfielder who has provided a 21 profit

for his investor lisandra Lopez before

signing for Lyon and then Qatar

generated a 37 return on investment for

a gibraltar-based fund Argentinian

player Angel Di Maria 64 percent

but even that is nothing compared to

Pepe the Real Madrid Defender a 147

return and finally falcau the former

Athletico Madrid player now in Monaco's

ranks a 164 return on investment for his

dutch-based fund

so by now if you supporters go to a

match say between FC Porto and FC

Seville you will know who is really

making money from you

go ahead place your bets the Dwayne

group that's playing a game behind on

the soccer investment fund which is

wagering again on soccer international

the Brazilian investment fund nice pass

by carnero the international Winger of

the Dwayne group soccer investment opens

it up to Gold football the Luxembourg

Farm it's a sharks but unfortunately

it's blocked

it would be funny if it were just a

video game

the reality is the investment funds are

accused of influencing club's decisions

more worrying is that they own players

and teams that are likely to play each

other

as in the case the game between popto

and Sevilla where the Dwayne group has

interests in both camps and the

temptation to cheat must be strong

what if the fans preferred the red team

to win

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and where's the referee in all of this

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above the national federations there's

wafer which controls European football

in 2007 Michelle platini the president

of wayfar stated in the media that

investment funds owning players was at

an end

six years later no change

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platini the referee swallowed his

whistle

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we visit wafer headquarters near Geneva

in Switzerland

we finally get an interview with platini

after trying for three months

it is what his director of

communications had to say

I've seen the president today and

unfortunately he no longer wishes to

take part in your program why

he just doesn't want to do it

it's a shame and he really wanted to ask

him a few questions

but there is a press conference on the

Euro 2020 tournament and we slip in with

all the Sports reporters

France too that's surprising

you've been the head of wafer for six

years and you've always said you don't

want investment funds mixed up with the

game

why is why are they still doing it then

we could because no one ever listens to

me no one listens to you you're the boss

of wafer and no one pays any attention

let me mentioned the young French

International who's now at FC Porto 30

of his rights belong to an investment

fund whose main business is coal and

uranium do you think that's normal

if I thought it was normal I wouldn't be

fighting to change things FC Porto is a

member of way for the play in the

Champions League listen we're fully

aware we know that often in matches

these people often own players in

several teams and that they'd let them

out it's like leasing really like

airplanes that can be rented from the

leasing companies it's a black mark

now I know why you're here

and you know what

there are even more surprising aspects

to companies owning players sometimes

the investment funds allow agents who

have been banned to be paid

ladies and gentlemen we have just landed

at Porto Airport

let's go back to eliaki mangala at FC

Porto

you recall this document by which Porto

sold on one third of the player's value

to the Dwayne group

well the same document also shows

another 10 650

000 Euros has been granted at no cost to

Roby plus another company

does the player know about that deal

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we also know that Porter has sold 10 of

your transfer rights to a company called

Roby plus does that name ring a bell

have you ever heard of that company

have you heard of it no YouTube no not

at all

the interview

hotels

because in FC Porto we have the role

that FC Porto managers talk about the

transfers not one dollar I just want to

okay I just want to know if he actually

knows uh what's what what's what I

understand your point of view but that's

not the FC Porto's point of view the

voice itself because it's business

that's the secret okay let's have

support the simple

okay mangala it's the managers who talk

about transfers not you okay

so we're gonna move on to some other

subject finished

the great thing is that no one knows who

is behind Roby Plus

at Porto at any rate it's impossible to

find out anything else

documents however that indicate a

certain marriage is the director of Roby

Plus

there are no pictures of the man yet he

appears well known in most of the

world's company registers especially in

the tax Havens

mitchenstein Del manico is a director of

at least two companies in Ireland at

seven in Britain 14 and in Panama he

seems to be involved in 40 companies

and finally in Switzerland Maritza Del

manico shows up on the board of 335

companies

in all the businessmen is connected to

almost 400 companies around the world

we spent months trying to track him down

without luck

until one day a voice at the other end

of the phone

to Delmonico yes the company called Roby

plus of which you're a director

I want to know why this company was

involved in the FC Porto transfer

yes because I work I work with other

partners

they they know about the players

they deal with that and I draw up the

contract

what partners are you talking about

you I work with him so Mr donorfio and

you handle the transfer of mangala

great yes so you and Mr dunafia own Roby

Plus

yes

we do business together

here's the thing D'Onofrio has been

sentenced many times by the French

courts

last occasion was in 2008. in the case

of Marseille football club's account he

received two years with six months to be

served Behind Bars

to help the transfer of one of his

players Luciano donofrio is suspected of

having given Ben Marseille manager

Roland kubis backhanders

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football's governing body FIFA is

unequivocal you need to be squeaky clean

to be a football agent with a criminal

record untarnished by either Financial

or violent crime

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according to this regulation Luciano

donofrio no longer then has the right to

be a player's agent

so here is how it seems to have broken

down

Mr D'Onofrio allegedly set up eliakim's

mangala's transfer to FC Porto

but since he was barred from acting as

an agent he couldn't receive any sort of

commission

but the solution he found was to

negotiate 10 of the financial rights of

the player with a club some 650 000

Euros one slice in the mangala cake

which he successfully camouflaged

through a letterbox company in England

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that's also what football is about

can well imagine we have a few questions

for Luciano donofrio he turned down all

our interview requests our last resort

was to stand outside his house in the

age in Belgium

almost on cue when we place our

cardboard cutout of mangala d'onofio

leaves his house

hello France too

hello sir

we just want to ask you one question sir

about the transfer of mangala

listening for you

we're just looking for some answers Mr

dorofio

about mangala's transfer

please wait

wait for me

the former football agent seems in great

shape

we didn't expect that reaction

it left us Breathless

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the donorfio explains all on the

telephone

I don't want to give an interview so

please leave me alone all right do you

have any links with a Roby plus company

no no do whatever you're meant to but

just leave me in peace

now let's see that again in slow motion

because a few days later Mr donorfio's

lawyer contacted us to say it actually

wasn't Mr donorfio we were chasing but I

look alike hired by his boss to deceive

us

in Europe we detected about 100 top

class players owned at least in part by

investment funds

and throughout the world there are about

1 000.

the football agents are everywhere and

have seized power but occasionally clubs

do without their services

without them transfer deals ought to be

far more transparent

in theory

that is Valencia one of the club's

players is reportedly at the center of a

strange tax scam

hello it's france2tv

amazing here they open up for us welcome

to valencian's Ultra Modern Training

Center

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can you park over there please

oh okay so this must be the players

parking Eh

this is the journalist parking space

valencian is one of the historic teams

in France's championship

11th in the League last year the club is

in some financial difficulties and a

long way from being able to compete with

financial heavyweight PSG and Monaco

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net Squad is midfielder Carlos Sanchez a

Colombian International adored by the

fans

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I mentioned the name Carlos Sanchez oh a

great player actually I think we can't

do without him at the valencian at the

moment

I was very surprised he might leave for

a Chilean Club I hope he still likes it

here you might stay on a bit more

yes what happened to Carlos Sanchez last

summer is quite interesting

his contract was up with valencian and

despite being wanted by some of Europe's

top clubs he eventually signs up here

in telka in Chile tauka has a theater

and a great view of the Andes and of

course a stadium home to the famous

Talca Rangers who were 10th in Chile's

national championships odd Choice really

for a player from a major European

League yet almost as soon as he arrived

in Telco in August 2012 he turned around

and headed back to valencian where he

played for another season quite an about

face especially since Sanchez had agreed

to a substantial pay cut

This Confidential document reveals he

had been earning 75 000 Euros gross a

month at valencian before he left on his

return his salary fell to 14 700 euros a

month a drop of some 80 percent

this is a Colombian soccer player not

the so-called polish plumber why we want

to know did he accept such a cut in

salary and did he ever really set foot

in Chile

we showed him some photographs of Talca

I'll show you three photos it's like a

game and you tell me if you recognize

where it is

what about this does this mean anything

to you no no

it's good but what about this team here

do you know which team this is

it's the photo of the Talca Rangers

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did you really go there or not yes I

went but I didn't see any of the setup

all the players but you returned to the

discount your wages were cut is that

true yes that's true

from 75 000 to 14 500 yeah yeah yes

that's enormous is it because you're a

nice guy and you love the club yes I do

like the club it's what made up my mind

about coming back last question if I can

sorry we need to go without telling me

but as no especially since the topic is

not what we agreed on this is bad

the communication Department of Valencia

is uneasy because in fact it's all a

scam to try and substantially reduce the

club's social charges paid on Sanchez's

salary

and here's how we know to start with the

date in the contract for the loan of the

player by the Talca Rangers back to

valencian has given us the 21st of

August 2012.

assigned at valencian by Sanchez in

person even though he was meant to have

been in Chile at the time and wasn't you

back in France for another nine days

in other words the entire loan operation

was organized from Valencia and Sanchez

never set foot in Talca

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the Chilean Club does not exactly have a

good reputation in South America last

summer after months of inquiry the

Argentinian tax authorities published a

list of 10 clubs in the world they're

suspected of helping European clubs

defraud the taxman

on the list

are the telka Rangers

foreign

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dance

to pay less social charges on a player's

salary a big Club has Telco Rangers sign

him up and then loan him straight back

again

it's an arrangement that seems to suit

everyone

in this case valencian paid out 400 000

Euros to Rangers

some will be paid to Sanchez a salary

Valentin can then pay just a small part

of his wages in France and save a huge

amount in Social Security contributions

given the topic Jean Ramon Legrand the

president of the northern Club isn't too

welcoming

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who are you exactly France too exactly

no Stadium

um we're interested in the case of

Carlos Sanchez and so Valencia I would

like to ask you two or three questions

do you have five minutes can we sit down

it depends on the questions I'll answer

what I want to answer yeah he agreed uh

we understand to a cutback

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he earned 75 000 a month gross in the

2011-12 season

these are highly confidential documents

I think we'll stop there because you

shouldn't have those if the league gave

them to you listen I'm not going to

start calling up the league too that's

my job no wait these are confidential

documents that nobody in the club should

have or could have but you you have the

documents today we can talk sports I can

talk to you about any sport I can tell

you about the club I can tell you

everything but if you're doing an

inquiring to one of my players you can

do that without me I'm just trying to

understand listen I don't get upset you

have documents from the league you

should not have so someone in the league

has not done what he should have and as

a director of The League of the next

meeting I'm going to bring this up with

the president so can you tell me about

these documents listen you're telling me

there is a document or such a document

and it's my problem you know these

documents is my job to track them down

let's not lie about it it's finished

it's finished

we're going to stop right there did you

arrange the moment Rangers Tower listen

I organize nothing mine is a clean Club

calm no problems I didn't organize

anything can we sit down so we can talk

about it I said I'm stopping so I'm

stopping that's it that is not why I

came today I'm not here to investigate a

player but Mr legon thank you for coming

I know what I've done thank you madam

see you again Mr LeBron we're just

trying to get the story straight

by our calculations valencian saved up

to 41 in Social contributions on Carlos

Sanchez's salary the club never did

answer our questions

but one highly placed French Football

Federation officer does agree to be

interviewed on condition of anonymity

and he confirms our theories

there are a lot of flashing lights and

warnings the salary the total amount of

the day to the fact it's a former player

and everyone knows about lunch I mean

the scam is odd actually it's it's quite

pathetic really they're saving on their

social security contributions

everything's fine from valencian's point

of view and this but the second kiss

cool effect if you will is that it

lowers their wage bill it's happening

more and more especially during the

economic crisis saw this before it's

something that could become more common

when clubs get into trouble try anything

football as business is all about

financial one-upmanship clubs like

Valencia and have trouble keeping up

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the six minutes of normal time remaining

we've kept the best for last

our investigations have shown that

football is like the jungle laws that

are flaunted a lack of controlled

conflicts of interest

going over and over the issues the

question always boils down to why are

there so many Professionals in the sport

that find it so hard to play by the

rules

hello

maybe because as so often the bad

example starts at the very top from the

International Football Federation

it's not a pretty story set blatter has

been in charge of FIFA for 10 years

during which time the association has

been ranked by corruption scandals

the platter the king of football

one of the most serious allegations is

that FIFA officials took bribes

and they don't seem too worried about it

bribes from the ISL the company that at

the beginning of the early 2000s managed

the TV rights for the World Cup

Swiss Justice authorities compiled a

full report here are the bank transfers

from ISL to FIFA officials

one received a total of 10.5 million

euros spread over several transfers here

is another 1.5 million Swiss Francs

about 1.2 million euros for the former

FIFA president Xiao have elange

at the time though there was a legal

void in Switzerland

so joao Avalanche FIFA and some other

managers signed off on a check to the

Swiss authorities to stop their

inquiries

with such a scandal Brewing you'd have

thought Avalanche and his cronies would

have been promptly shown the door not a

bit of it why let's pose that question

to FIFA's current number two Jerome Valk

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yries I find it hard to talk about the

ISL file as it's not an issue I was

involved in at all I came to fever in

2003. yes okay but you're the number two

at FIFA and this is a matter which can

be very embarrassing after all who is

your honorary president

Avalanche

here is a gentleman who received bribes

a gentleman who has received 1.24

million euros and who is now your

honorary president so it does concern

you

yes he is my president of Honor he was

appointed honorary president by the FIFA

Congress I don't have any direct

dealings

but what does that mean to you the word

honorary it means exactly what it says

in the dictionary that you're on respect

what's the word that you're respectable

respectable hang on you tripped over a

word though irreproachable I mean

you almost said unrespectable we know

the honorary president is involved in a

case of corruption

Congress has the power to ask the

honorary president to renounce his title

if a case harms FIFA's reputation

you'd like to see it happen I have

nothing to say about it uh I just know

that a report will be given to the FIFA

Congress and the Congress will make

whatever decision they wish

so you're saying the executive committee

makes all the decisions all the policies

yes the executive committee of FIFA

they're 23 they're 25. they're 25. now

there's also a Nicholas slay Oz

yes he's the president

but he's also received bribes worth 590

000 Euros from ISL and he is part of the

23 who will have to decide on all

ethical issues in football

it's a bit like being both the judge and

the jury and he's been tainted by the

same case listen as I said the ISL

dossier was submitted to the Ethics

Committee of FIFA the ethics commission

they will let us know what sanctions

they are taking against which people and

decide who has acted wrongly or against

the interests of FIFA

listen we went through each line of the

documents we obtained that were prepared

by Swiss Justice and they say very

clearly that there was no way Seth

platter who is now your boss and head of

FIFA there is no way that he could not

have known what was going on

you'd think the boss of FIFA was aware

of the bribery and Corruption he said

nothing did nothing you'll have to ask

him about that not me no you're the

number two though can't you answer for

him I can't answer him you're not being

very supportive I'm being very

supportive to answer on his behalf he

knew that's what's being said it was

written there okay well ask him the

question not me

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of course we would have loved to

interview FIFA's number one said blatter

but once again the door remained closed

to us

foreign

s after our interview Nicolas Slayers

resigned from FIFA

and a week after that ciao avilanch also

resigned from his position as honorary

president

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those who love football know that when

Brazil coughs football catches a cold a

bad one and now Brazil is screaming

protesting the enormous costs of

organizing the 2014 World Cup

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in Italy another Hallowed Ground of the

soccer God the police has searched

through the records of 41 clubs they

suspect of financial fraud

foreign

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figures continue to fall 50 000

Spectators less than five or six years

ago

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are these then the first signs of a

crack in the hitherto flourishing

business of football

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