Fair play? Not so much: Corruption in the Italian football

Ronco, Anna Di; Lavorgna, Anita

doi:10.1007/s12117-014-9233-9

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“…Moreover, references to “mafias” infesting the world of football and using it as a money-making and money-laundering platform are commonplace (Feltes, 2013; UNODC, 2013). As reported by Boniface et al (2012, p. 26 cited by Di Ronco and Lavorgna, 2014), generally speaking, “organised crime” seems to favour the most popular sports, which make it possible “to carry out underground criminal activities back-to-back with a positive public image, that of a sport with millions of supporters” (the so-called “image-laundering”). The UK soccer clubs such as Glasgow Rangers, Leeds United and Portsmouth have been embroiled in takeover and financial scandals, involving domestic and foreign owners charged with serious offences, and there are heated issues about the role and denotation of “fit and proper” director requirements.…”

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Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece

Manoli

Antonopoulos²,

Levi

2016

JFC

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Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece

Manoli

Antonopoulos²,

Levi

2016

JFC

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“…De Maria, 2008;Hodgkinson, 1997;Jancsics, 2014;Khondker, 2006) and studies of corruption in sport (Gorse and Chadwick, 2009;Maennig, 2005;Mason et al, 2006;Petroczi, 2009). Due to the sensitivity of the phenomenon, previous research was focused primarily on secondary and archival data (Aquilina and Chetcuti, 2014;Di Ronco and Lavorgna, 2014;Maennig, 2005;Preston and Szymanski, 2003;Wardrop, 2002), and the number of studies that engaged with direct data was limited (Hill, 2009a(Hill, , 2009b(Hill, , 2010b.…”

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Corruption and public secrecy: An ethnography of football match-fixing

Numerato

2016

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The topic of corruption has recently moved from the periphery to the centre of social scientific attention. Notwithstanding the increased interest, research into corruption has been empirically limited and under-theorized. This study addresses that gap by providing an ethnographic account of football match-fixing in the Czech Republic. By qualitatively analysing both primary and secondary data, this study examines match-fixing and corruption through the lens of the concept of public secrecy. Three different, narrowly intertwined forms of match-fixing are identified: direct corruption, mediated corruption and meta-corruption. By conceptualizing match-fixing as a public secrecy, the study explores how the publicly secret nature of match-fixing is normalized and how the match-fixing complex is reinforced by a compromising complicity of social actors who are both victims and principals. Although this study focuses on a sport-related example, it has both theoretical and empirical implications for a sociological understanding of corruption outside the sphere of sport.

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“…Our account on Turkish match-fixing offered elements of the social organisation of Turkish match-fixing on the basis of the 'Şike Davası' scandal during the 2010/2011 football season and highlighted that the phenomenon of match-fixing internationally can take diverse forms some of which are potentially yet to be uncovered (see Di Ronco and Lavorgna 2015). Clearly, additional research on the topic is necessary.…”

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An anatomy of Turkish football match-fixing

2018

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While discussion on corruption in sport is intensifying and football match-fixing in particular is attracting increasing attention, new fixing scandals emerge offering new accounts of actors and corrupt practices within the football industry and the level of the external threat to the sport. The scandal exposure of fixed matches in Turkey in 2011 sheds light on the fixing of 17 matches played in the 2010/11 football season and allowed for insights to the actors, structure and processes behind the fix. Following four criminal and seven disciplinary proceedings, the case is still pending appeal for its final decision, involving a total of 93 suspects and having already resulted in the exclusion of two teams from European competitions. The evidence collected by the authorities points towards a hierarchical criminal organisation led by the President of a football club that arranged and coordinated the fixing in order for his team to win the national Championship. The aim of this article is to provide an account of the organisation and coordination of match-fixing in Turkey, with its actors, specifics and criminal characteristics, while offering an examination of matchfixing for sporting success, the least documented type of match-fixing.

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Fair play? Not so much: Corruption in the Italian football

Cited by 15 publications

References 21 publications

Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece

Football clubs and financial crimes in Greece

Corruption and public secrecy: An ethnography of football match-fixing

An anatomy of Turkish football match-fixing

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