BRAZIL GREAT AND Real Valladolid majority shareholder Ronaldo believes the investigation into alleged match-fixing in La Liga is a positive move.
Several arrests were made on Tuesday in Spain following an investigation into a group alleged to have taken part in match-fixing in an attempt to profit from betting.
Players from La Liga and Spain’s Segunda Division are reported to be have been detained – including former Valladolid player Borja Fernandez – while Huesca confirmed a number of executives and playing staff have appeared voluntarily as witnesses.
Six people are expected to appear before a judge on Thursday, while 15 others with “connections to football, sports betting and Huesca” are being investigated, according to Spain’s judicial body.
Ronaldo, who acquired a 51 per cent stake in Valladolid in September, has welcomed the investigation and says the club will do everything to aid it.
“I hope Borja was not involved at all,” he told AS. “I think it’s good that it’s investigated because we should all want for there to be no corruption.
“Look, I’m from Brazil and over there we’ve got a tremendous amount of corruption.
“We support the investigation; we’ll do everything to collaborate and we’ll provide all the information we have.
“Nobody has called us yet. I haven’t been able to speak to Borja, or anyone. We can’t do anything more than wait for all this to be cleared up.”
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Soccer always attracts the best
@John O Reilly: Turkey are a cut above.
@John O Reilly: soccer is a game for all, the rich, the poor and everyone in between. It’s not elitist and is representative of society as a whole, as all sports should be. This incident is representative of our society not soccer fans in general.
@GrumpyAulFella: it’s called football,generally it’s country people & Gaa heads who call it soccer…..FIFA UEFA don’t have the name soccer attached to them
@Tony Doyle: it’s the English themselves who coined the term soccer. People can it whatever they want. Your “country people (whatever that means) and GAA heads” quip is quite nonsensical.
@Tony Doyle: Wrong. It’s not called football. It’s called association football which is where the word soccer comes from and both FIFA and uefa have the word association in their names. It’s not just country people and gaa heads, as you so unintelligently put it, that call it that. It’s called that in other countries as well like the USA and Australia to distinguish it from the likes of American football or Aussie Rules Football in the same way it’s used here to differentiate it from Gaelic football. If anything soccer is a more correct term than just football as it’s derived from the sport’s proper name
@Mark Jay: Correct. Specifically it was students in Oxford who used the terms soccer and rugger to differentiate between association and rugby football
Very unlike the Turkish fans.
Have no interest in any team who supports putin. Fans or club’s.
Disgusting.
It takes a special kind of person to stoop to a level that low. Soccer fans get their moment in the spotlight. Can’t really say it was only a small percent in this case
They are some soulless people in the world unfortunately and this is an example.
Jayyyysus
Strange war if football players don’t have to sign up. Just asking…
@John Smith: perhaps they’re the morale booster the troops need? Something to tune into outside of the war, just saying…
I don’t think there are very many critical thinkers among the readership here.
What would you expect from a pig but a grunt?!
Do you know why the war started?
Gh,
@David Hughes: Well said
@mcdb06: and thanks to you I will be forever in your debt
G
I guess we are all Fenerbache fans now
@JustBEERbarry: don’t you mean Dynamo??
Gh
meh… Kiev still won…. They (the chanting fans) were just showing themselves up as sore losers
Igno rant fules. Likely to be perceived as toxic. And rightly so.
Turkish fans chose right side. Any respect from tolerant Europe?