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Joan Laporta defends Barcelona against the accusations, suggests a campaign against the club
The president said that “it is striking that this information comes out at a time when Barcelona is doing well.” He says they will take steps to defend the club’s ‘honour’.
Through a statement, FC Barcelona reported that the Catalan club “hired in the past” the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied in video format “technical reports referring to players in lower categories” of the Barça entity.
He Barcelona He assured that in the past he hired the services of an external provider (DASNIL 95 SL) to have “technical reports” related to professional arbitration and in order to “complement information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary”.
This has been reflected in a statement issued as a result of information from the program ‘Que t’hi jugues’ of SER Catalunya in which it was revealed that the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office investigates a company for an alleged crime of corruption between individuals José Maria Enriquez Negreira, former referee and number two of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) between 1994 and 2018, for payments of 1.4 million euros made by FC Barcelona between 2016 and 2018.
Through a statement, the FC Barcelona reports that the Catalan club “hired in the past” the services of an external technical consultant, who supplied in video format “technical reports referring to players in the lower categories of the Spanish State for the technical secretary” of the Barça entity.
“Additionally, the relationship with the same external provider was extended with technical reports related to professional arbitration in order to complement the information required by the coaching staff of the first team and the subsidiary, a common practice in professional football clubs,” he says. it’s a statement.
The Barcelona club reports that currently “this type of outsourced service” falls on a professional “assigned to the football area”.
In his statement, the Barcelona regrets that “this information appears precisely at the best sporting moment of this season” and assures that it will take “legal action against whoever harms the image of the Club with possible insinuations contrary to the reputation of the entity that may occur as a result of this information “.