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It's no secret that match-fixing is a completely normal and natural phenomenon for modern football. It's like corruption - it will exist as long as football exists. And okay, if everything would happen only at the level of rumors - they say, Spartak lost to Zenit, the fans shouted for a couple of days that the match was bought, and after a week everything was forgotten. Keep your pocket wide. Today there are real organizations that monitor the organization of match-fixing around the world. This is done according to the standard scheme: special agents sniff out information about the upcoming contract, sell it for a lot of money to special offices, which, in turn, sell it to mere mortals, and also far from free. Mere mortals bet their hard-earned money and cause significant damage to bookmakers. Here is such a system.
Of course, such a business is built on high risk and huge money, but the fact remains that fixed matches are played, and bookmakers go bankrupt. After all, in fact, everything is elementary - a millionaire pays for some match in the lower division, makes sure that the desired result is guaranteed, puts his considerable savings in a bookmaker's office, and ... and that's it, there is no bookmaker's office.
At the beginning of this year, three large English publications at once - the Guardian, the Independent and the Financial Times - published a very curious article entitled "Bookmakers are sounding the alarm", which predicted an absolute collapse of bookmakers due to match-fixing. According to statistics, in Foggy Albion alone, since January 1, 2008, 24 offices have gone bankrupt. This is approximately one office per week. In other words, each round of any division of England entails the closure of one bookmaker's office. Only the giants of this business manage to stay afloat, like william hill or bwin. They are the ones who sound the alarm.
Yet again, interesting fact. Well, if fixed matches were held only in the lower divisions of the same championship of Russia - even I had to watch the organization of these. So after all, even in the homeland of football, agreements are regularly played, not to mention Spain, Italy, Germany and other, less prestigious championships. Golden fever devours even such people as, I am not afraid of this word, the best goalkeeper of modern football, Gianluigi Buffon, who bet money on his own matches. The situation when a couple of hours before the match on the website of one of the playing teams (I will not name their names, but anyone interested in Russian football can easily remember them) already indicates the score with which this match will end, is hardly surprising. It comes to the point of absurdity - almost every day bookmakers have to make sure that information about agreements does not leak to the masses; and if it has already leaked, then in this case you simply have to remove this match from the totalizator. Adding something to this, I think, does not make sense.
To understand what is happening in the kitchen of match-fixing, you should directly refer to this kind of fights. Our editorial staff has managed to “solve” about thirty such cases only since January 1, 2008, that is, since the publication of that very unfortunate article that caused unprecedented excitement throughout the football world. In order to get at least an approximate picture of the organization of these contractual matches, let's turn to the most interesting and indicative of them.
January 27, the Dutch championship, an ordinary match between the teams "Twente" and "Sparta". The so-called classical contract in terms of motives. Twente is not a rich club, but then it occupied a good place in the standings. Sparta, on the other hand, was hanging somewhere in the relegation zone, so the odds for its victory in this match were equal to 9. Having lost at home to the outsider of the championship, Twente lost three points, but earned a lot of money. By the way, this is one of the reasons for the inability of the average players to compete with the giants - only when they are at the top of the standings, teams like Twente are unable to resist the temptation to earn a lot of money, and they begin to merge matches. This is the so-called classical scheme.
If in the previous case the contractual match was organized solely on the initiative of one club, then there are cases when teams agree jointly. On the contrary, it happens most of the time. For example, in early February, Rennes and Auxerre were supposed to meet as part of the French championship. Rennes at that time occupied a solid place in the very middle of the table, and Auxerre were desperately escaping from relegation. It is worth noting that friendship has long been established between the leadership of these clubs, and therefore they constantly leak matches to each other. It happened this time too - Rennes gave points to Auxerre at home and helped to avoid relegation to the lower division, at the same time earning good money on it.
Now, as promised, England. Do not believe it, but not just anyone was caught in a fixed match, but the most titled club of Albion, Liverpool! Very beautiful, "stylish" arrangement. Liverpool, courageously fighting for a place in the top four of the strongest Premier League, had to be distracted by the FA Cup, which took a lot of strength. The vast majority of giants in this case simply releases youngsters for such matches and flies out sooner or later. But Rafa Benitez decided to do it much smarter. He not only agreed that he would merge this match with the little-known Barnsley - in addition to this, he also squeezed the maximum odds out of him. The first half was followed by a clear advantage of the Merseysiders, who entered the field in the strongest squad. The score is 1:0 in their favor. Everything turns upside down in the second half as the Liverpool defenders literally bounce off the Barnsley attackers and let them score two goals against Reina. 2-1, Liverpool are knocked out of the FA Cup, and earn big money - the odds that Barnsley will play two goals was 40.
On February 23, the day of the defender of the fatherland, an interesting agreement was organized in Croatia. It was organized by one person, and his name was Nikola Yurchevich. Yurchevich is an indisputable authority and significant person Croatian football, so it would never have occurred to anyone to suspect him of something dark. On that day, Yurchevich's Dinamo Zagreb, which was more than ten points ahead of all its pursuers and practically secured gold medals, hosted Varteks, in which Yurchevich spent almost his entire football career. "Varteks" was on the penultimate place and risked to fly out of the tower, Yurchevich felt sorry for his native club, and he decided to help him with three points. He himself, in turn, made good money on this.
If fixed matches pass by the eyes of disciplinary committees throughout Europe, then what can we say about former countries CIS. In the same Ukraine, agreements are played almost in every round. And they play, unlike in Europe, according to the classical scheme - 1:0. That is, for ninety minutes the teams are engaged in God knows what, somewhere in the middle of the match a ball flies into one of the gates, and that's it. And so it happened in the match of the championship of Ukraine between Chornomorets and Neftyanik. Although here, perhaps, the Odessans bought the match not so much for financial reasons, but for football reasons - they desperately needed three points. By that time, Neftyanik had firmly settled on the last line of the standings and did not miss the opportunity to make money on it.
The Polish championship ruins the bookmakers very noticeably. The championship, as you know, is weak - there are a couple of good teams, followed by unremarkable average teams, and even lower - absolute outsiders. It is the middle players who are most profitable to play match-fixing - they do not claim places in European competitions, they are not threatened with relegation either. Obsessed with these motives, the match-fixers decided to organize "Rukh" and "Crown" ... But, as practice shows, match-fixing tends to fail. By agreement, Rukh was supposed to win with a score of 1:0. At the beginning of the meeting, Korona conceded the ball, everything went according to plan, but in the middle of the second half, the goalkeeper of this team made a mistake and conceded the second ball. So this goalkeeper lost his place in the first team, and "Rukh" and "Crown" - good money, since the coefficient was equal to seven.
But the most inconvenient championship for turning “dark deeds” is the Bundesliga. The disciplinary committee of the German championship is very strict, so it is very, very difficult to organize match-fixing here. But, nevertheless, it is possible. In mid-March, Bayern Munich dared to do this when they went to visit the complete outsider of the championship, Cottbus. Ottmar Hitzfeld, the Munich coach at the time, decided to make some extra money before stepping down from his post. Forwards, threatening to lose their place in the squad, the mentor gave the instructions not to score, and the defenders - not even to approach the Cottbus forwards. 2:0, the absolute outsider of the championship beats the future champion, and Hitzfeld makes good money - the odds for such a victory for the hosts were 11.
In Slovakia, the attention of the whole country is riveted only to hockey, so playing match-fixing in the football championship is no problem. For example, a lot of well-informed people made money on the match between the team from the last place, Trencina, and the rather strong Nitra. Representatives of Nitra agreed with the opponents that the field would look like a struggle, goals would be scored to divert eyes, but in the end, the representative of the top part of the standings would win. No sooner said than done.
The main difference between our contractual matches and those in the West is that here most of the match-fixing ends with a score of 1:0, and there the appearance of a struggle is necessarily created. Otherwise, sanctions from the disciplinary committee cannot be avoided. For example, the Spanish Segunda match between Numancia and Tarragona. The famous Luis Enrique, coach of the latter, organized everything so clearly that there was nothing to complain about - an abundance of goals, cards and struggle. And, most importantly, this did not affect the final result in any way.
In the first English league, otherwise known as the Championship, almost every team has a special agent or match-fixing manager. They look for "clients", contact agents from other teams, make connections in the disciplinary committee - in a word, they make sure that everything is in the ointment. For example, according to this scheme, a match was played between Swansea and Yewil. Theatrical production, score 1:2 in favor of weaker guests. Factor 11 worked.
But, of course, the towers are towers, and the lower divisions are the main hotbeds of contractions. Fast forward to the first Swiss division. "Bellisona", going in first place and claiming to enter the major league, went on a visit to the Yverdon, which did not pursue any goals. The coefficient for the victory of the guests is not very high, but this did not stop the leaders of Bellizona. For ninety minutes of acting on the field, Yverdon players receive two monthly salaries, the club's management beats off this money from the bookmakers, and the team scores another three points and is one step closer to the coveted major league. All is well - such contractual matches are also very popular.
Or it happens the way it happened in early May in the championship of Portugal. Porto, which secured the first place and broke away from the nearest pursuer by 21 points, hosted the main outsider of the championship - Nacional. Naturally, the odds for the victory of the guests are simply crazy. So why shouldn't Porto's coach Jesualdo Ferreira send raw youngsters into the match, give three points to the poor Nacional and make a lot of money from it?
In general, fixed matches are most often played at the end of the championship, since many teams no longer pursue any goals. For example, in the penultimate round of the Turkish championship last year, Fenerbahce played at home with Trabzonspor. The latter desperately needed three points to reach the Intertoto Cup, while Fenerbahçe, in any case of the last two matches, was in second place in the standings. The bookmakers did not take this into account and for some reason gave a large odds for the victory of Trabzonspor. Fenerbahce's mentor couldn't help but make a profit on it - already by the break the score was 0:2 in favor of the guests. At half-time, Zico, the coach of the hosts, goes to the opponent's locker room and offers to finish the match with such a score and not allow defeat, so as not to attract the attention of the disciplinary committee. As a result, the third team of Fenerbahce loses 0:2, Ziko earns money, and Trabzonspor - an important three points.
A similar arrangement was played around the same time in the Bundesliga. Borussia, no longer claiming anything, hosted Wolfsburg, a few points short of the European Cup zone. Representatives of both teams knew that the match would end with a score of 2:4 in favor of the guests. The coefficient for such an event was equal to five - a good reason to replenish the club's treasury with a couple of million euros.
A similar situation has developed in the Spanish Segunda. The second squad of Sevilla - Sevilla B - took second place in the standings, however, according to the regulations, they still could not reach the top league. Ironically, in the next round, the team hosted Malaga, which lacked three points to reach the Example. Sevilla understudies lose the match for six points in next season's matches, when Malaga will advance to the tower. That is, fixed matches are not always played just for the sake of money.
It happens that agreements are played and not at all for selfish purposes. For example, in the last round of the Segunda last season, Celta hosted Tenerife. One point is enough for each team to keep their place in the league. Naturally, the leaders of the club agree on a draw - all of Spain knew about it. 2:2 and both teams remain in the Segunda. And, of course, the clubs did not miss the chance to make money.
The same tour of the Segunda. Elche plays with Hercules. The teams are no longer fighting for anything in the standings, but a little money will not hurt anyone. Therefore, by prior arrangement, they staged a whole circus - a goal in the first minute, a goal in the second minute and eighty-eight minutes of terrible tedium, which bothered even the referee, who did not add a minute to the second half. The leaders of both clubs bet on the victory of Elche in the first half and the match as a whole. The coefficient was equal to eight.
Many agreements are played in the championship of Belarus. For example, in early June, when all the attention of the fans was devoted to the European Championship, the management of Gomel decided to merge the home match with Torpedo Zhodino. Moreover, the Gomel residents earned not from bookmakers, but from special match-fixing agents - the club management received a lot of money for the sale of such valuable information.
Or, for example, the duel between MTZ-RIPO and BATE was very strange. The coach of MTZ-RIPO, a kind of football romantic, Anatoly Zygmantovich realized that his physically addicted team could not even cope with the Borisov club that had gained momentum on its own field, so it was decided to merge the match. Moreover, the coach decided not to bring the players up to date - he simply released six forwards, two midfielders and two defenders on the field. As a result, MTZ-RIPO scored three goals in the first half! True, and missed so much. During the break, agents called Zygmantovich and told him to immediately stop this circus. The match ended with the victory of BATE with a score of 4:3.
In almost every round of the first league of the championship of Russia fixed matches are played. For example, we can recall the match between Ural and Siberia. "Siberia" was losing match after match and was in terrible shape, while "Ural", on the contrary, tore and metal. Therefore, the best option in this case is the surrender of the match. Representatives of "Siberia" agreed on everything with the management of the opponent and match-fixing agents. The match was played according to the classic one-ball scheme - 1:0. Interestingly, the bookmakers got wind of everything a few hours before the fight and reduced the odds to the limit, but it was already too late.
It is considered very popular and profitable to take friendly matches. Sometimes they are organized only for this purpose. For example, the leadership of Wolverhampton, which was undergoing a financial crisis, decided to leak a friendly match to some weak team and cut down money on it. A club from the conference, Wrexham, was chosen as an opponent. The victory of the provincial club with a minimum score was quoted by bookmakers with a coefficient of 11. With absolutely nothing to lose and nothing to risk, the Wolverhampton management replenished the club's treasury with several million pounds and bankrupted a couple of small bookmakers.
There is such a thing as the surprise effect. If it was possible to predict many of the above agreements, then no one could say that the two leaders of the Finnish championship - Tampere United and MuPa - would also want to play a match in the middle of the season. Big stakes This fight was accepted with great enthusiasm. The bookmakers had no idea that special agents had agreed that MuPa would beat Tampere with a minimum score. This, by the way, was taken care of by the head coach of the losers.
Of course, not everything is clean in the championship of Ukraine. From the recent one, we can recall a fixed match between Vorskla and Zorya. Everything is simple here - the management of both teams are very friendly, and one constantly helps the other with points. This time there was an agreement that the Poltava players would lose to the players from Lugansk with a minimum score. No sooner said than done.
Just drowning in Leeds United match-fixing. In general, the team rarely plays matches honestly - it constantly buys and sells them. Leeds are trying to improve their deplorable financial situation with match-fixing, only to make it worse due to terrible results. And so from season to season ... But that's another topic. One of these matches was the confrontation with Oldham. The Leeds manager assured match-fixing agents that the match would be leaked. He was merged, by the way, not according to the standard scheme, since the disciplinary committee has already caught Leeds United on such tricks more than once and is watching him especially closely. There were no goals in the first half, and in the second, Oldham scored two unanswered goals against the hosts.
At the end of August, the leaders of the Greek Olympiacos just made a brilliant money. Moreover, they did this by beating the modest Asteras Tripolis, which occupies the penultimate place in the standings. Olympiacos, the multiple champion of Greece, would have beaten an outsider anyway, but decided to do it much more inventively. The usual victory of the red-whites was estimated at a coefficient of only 1.5, while a strong-willed victory was worth ten times more. Therefore, Olipiacos lost the first half with a score of 1:0, and in the second half sent three goals into the Asteras goal. And the wolves are full, and the sheep are safe.
It is believed that the safest score in relation to the disciplinary committee is 2:1. Like, there was a struggle, but one of the teams turned out to be a little stronger. Yes, and random victories most often end with such a universal score. It was on this account that the management of Carlisle and Southend agreed, having played a contractual match in early September this year.
The last of the agreements we declassified was a duel in the second English league between Dag and Red Time and Wycombe. Again, the classic scheme and the score 2:1. Victory in the first half and in the entire match. Coefficient 5.2. Safe, secure and profitable.
These are the pies. Football is football and business is business. One thing is interesting. Who will be the first of the Russian clubs to guess to buy all the matches of the Cup of Russia next draw(~€2m) and then all the Europa League matches of the first season (~€10m) in order to recoup all the costs in the 2010-11 season with a direct hit in the Champions League group stage?
According to some very narrow-minded and quick-tempered bettors, almost all matches in football are “100% negotiated”. Especially often match-fixing "happen" when a player's bet fails. But jokes aside, the factor of corruption in football cannot be denied.
Another thing is that there are not so many proven examples of fixed matches or simply dishonest fights. But corruption is, was and will be in football. It happens in every field. human life in which a lot of money is spinning.
What matches are most often fixed?
Usually those fights have a dubious status, in which one team really needs something, and the other, on the contrary, does not need anything. Even in European countries, there are cases when a third party incentivizes a third party team in their own interests.
You must remember how the England team ended up out of Euro 2008? Then the Croatian national team beat the English at Wembley with a score of 2-3. At the same time, there was information in the press that Croatian football players were stimulated by Russian oligarchs.
After all, it was Russia that, as a result of this victory of the Croats, was the main winner - it was able to enter the European Championship.
Stimulation is considered an unethical move, although not universally prohibited. It is much worse when teams directly agree among themselves.
This happened in 1982, when the Austrian and German teams played a match with the right score and left the Algerians out of the tournament. This is what the Swedes and Danes did when they weeded out the Italians at Euro 2004. That is, there are agreements even at this level.
There are even more of them in the endings of the championships. Sometimes it is cheaper for teams to “pay” the opponent than to lose money from relegation / not getting into an international club tournament, and so on. And this happens in many leagues, even very reputable ones (Liga, Serie A). Cache is not always used as a fee. Sometimes it can be a loan of a player, and sometimes a debt in the form of points already in the next season.
Leagues and countries where there are the most agreements
There is one very interesting way determine the league with the most draws - look at the number of draws. Why?
- Firstly, a draw often satisfies both sides of the "agreement" at once.
- Secondly, a tie usually has the highest odds in matches between roughly equal teams.
So, on the European continent, and throughout the world, Serie B is the leader in terms of the number of draws in the 2016-2017 season. The same Serie B, in which teams and players regularly receive fines and disqualifications for organizing or attempting to organize fixed matches.
Former Milan, Parma, Sampdoria, Bari and Belarus national team player Vitaly Kutuzov was suspended for 3.5 years in 2013. Along with him, another 20 players received punishments. They were accused of surrendering matches in Serie B.
Italy is the most corrupt football country in Western Europe. You must remember the scandal of 2006, when almost half of Serie A teams, including Juventus, Milan, Lazio, Fiorentina, Reggina, participated in the organization of fixed matches. As a result of this, Juventus were generally relegated to Serie B.
In the first twenty-kelig with the largest number draws at once 12 lower divisions. This list included:
- Russian FNL;
- Serie B;
- two top divisions in Israel;
- three lower Spanish leagues at once;
- championships of the Balkan countries (Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia);
- minor leagues in South America(Chile, Argentina);
- the second league of India;
- two African championships (Tunisian elite division, South African second league).
What we have? Spain and Italy, where last years there are proven cases of match-fixing, dubious Balkan leagues, minor leagues in SA, African leagues, FNL, and Israel. All countries except Israel have huge problems with corruption.
There were no strong European or South American leagues in the top 50. The 52nd place went to the Chilean example, and the 54th place went to the Premier League.
Quite a strange spread, don't you think? This once again proves that match-fixing is a very common occurrence in the lower leagues. The example of two matches of the 4th division of the Nigerian championship is still fresh. The teams that were fighting for promotion scored 152 goals for two of their rivals, as the outcome of the tour was to be decided by the difference between goals scored and conceded.
Don't trust match fixers
Fixed games in football there are, but they are not organized by poor people who are connected with the criminal world. Naturally, they are trying to narrow the circle of individuals aware of the collusion. And here sellers of fixed matches enter the arena, who are ready to give you such information for a couple of thousand wooden ones. Do you realize how illogical and stupid that sounds? And it would be fine if these people were selling, say, "negotiables" in the PFL or even the FNL.
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"Agreements" in Russian football
On the Internet, there have been reports more than once that an “agreement” was played in the Russian Premier League, in other words, this is a match, the result of which is known in advance to certain persons, who just predetermined this or that outcome. Subsequently, such statements were refuted, players, coaches and presidents insisted that this was just an attempt to tarnish their reputation. Further investigations also could not confirm or refute the existence of the “agreement”.
If we think logically, then we can draw the following conclusion: fixed matches do exist, and this can be seen from what investigations were carried out in Italy, and how many teams were then affected by own desire earn extra money on matches with a predetermined outcome.
However, after the first conclusion comes the second: to prove that the match is fixed is very, very difficult, and sometimes simply impossible. Such logical reflections lead us to the third, and perhaps the most important conclusion: fixed matches in Russian football, even if they exist, will never be known to mere mortals like you and me. All contracts are held on the highest level, and concern only a few people of a serious level, otherwise the topic would have long ago caused a wide public outcry.
At the same time, in in social networks almost every day new personalities appear, offering to buy from them reliable information about the upcoming "dogs". Sounds funny, doesn't it? But thousands of people still continue to believe such scammers.
Arrangements in the Premier League may exist, but only their direct organizers can know about such matches
Whistleblowers and their fraud
Currently, on the Internet you can find many informants who allegedly have insider information regarding upcoming matches in the RFPL or FNL. As a rule, these scammers tell the following details about themselves:
- They share insider information from reliable informants so that they are not "spotted" by bookmakers.
- Some even admit that they personally participate in the organization of "agreements".
- They can give you one match to try. The scheme works in such a way that the scammer sends different outcomes of the same sporting event to different clients.
- They are extremely rich and successful, so they want all other people to live just as beautifully.
You can often find the results of supposedly contractual matches of the FNL of Russia, the main emphasis is on the fact that this league is lower in terms of level and class of play than the Premier League, so none of the players will refuse a well-paid "agreement".
Many scammers sell information about supposedly upcoming match-fixing All these are fraudulent schemes that will lead you to loss of finances.
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Reliable cappers don't give "agreements" and matches with 100% passability, but they will help you earn money Every lover sports betting at least once in his life he faced such a sporting event that aroused suspicion of his honesty. Huge amounts of money are spinning in the world of betting business, and this gives rise to many contractual competitions. With the help of bukmekerskiekontory.pro, let's recall the brightest suspicious games.
1) In the last round of the group stage of the 2004 European Championship, held in Portugal, met the teams of Sweden and Denmark. To pass to the next round, the teams needed not only to draw, but also with a score of 2-2.
The game between geographical neighbors ended with the desired result for both teams. affected by such fair play was the Italian team, which completed the performance at the tournament.
Meanwhile, the UEFA investigation into this game did not reveal any suspicious factors.
The sports car overtook these teams already in the playoffs. Both teams lost already in the following quarterfinal matches.
2) Another "fixed" match was recorded at the 1982 World Cup. To reach the playoffs, the German and Austrian teams in the last round had to play with a score of 1-0 in favor of the Germans.
The game ended with just such a result, and eyewitnesses of that event said that the second half of the match resembled a theater of the absurd.
3) Football fans respect the Champions League, but suspicious games happen in this prestigious tournament. In the 6th round of the preliminary stage, the German Bayer and the French Monaco met. The situation in the table before the match was such that a draw brought both teams to the next stage.
The final draw result was not unexpected. In the last minutes of the game, the players were afraid to even go up to someone else's goal, so as not to score an accidental goal.
4) Qualifying match of the European Championship 2016 between the national teams of Albania and Armenia, which ended with a score of 3-0 in favor of the Balkans, also fell under the suspicion of sports officials.
Information appeared on news portals that Armenian football players were bribed for $5 million. The result of the game did not affect the Armenian national team, but the victory allowed the Albanians to get into the final part of the European forum.
5) Not spared the scandalous news and the Spanish confrontation between Barcelona and Real Madrid. So, before the match in 2015, the refereeing team turned to a special committee with a statement that a certain criminal group was exerting influence on them. The arbitrators explained that they were forced to make deliberately wrong decisions during the match in favor of Real Madrid.
The investigation into these facts did not establish any criminal moments.
There have been many other championship games in the history of Spanish football that have come under suspicion. However, no confirmed cases have been recorded.
6) In 1998, a fixed match was also played in the prestigious English championship between Charlton and Liverpool. Malaysian criminals were involved in organizing this suspicious game. Four criminals, whose guilt in organizing a match-fixing was fully proven, received imprisonment from one to four years.
7) A chain of fixed matches was recorded in 2005 in the Italian championship. The result of the scandalous games in the history of Italian football was the disqualification of Turin Juventus in Serie B. It took several years to revive the legendary club.
More about fixed matches
, where we touched on the topic of bookmakers, rates and contractual football matches, I immediately promised you a continuation, but I had no idea with what difficulties will have to face when searching for the necessary material.On the one hand, everyone is talking about match-fixing, but on the other hand, no one wants to tell the details.I thought my good friend workingat the Ministry of Sports Russian Federation, after all, 20 years ago, together with him, we were engaged in power triathlon and practically at one competition we fulfilled the standard of the master of sports of Russia.But at the meeting, my friend advised me not to touchthis topic and literally said the following:- Listen to Dmitry! Repair your computers further, but about thismaybe, there is a whole mafia working there and so much money is spinning, you never even dreamed of it, if anything, they will roll you and me together in concrete and not blink an eye! Hoh, we are still friends and what can I do– I’ll help, I’ll call one person, he worked for us as a chief specialist a year ago– an expert in the professional sports department, you can talk to him. His name is George and he knows this topic even more than I do, and even played in the Premier League once a little. Of course, he will not tell you all the secrets, but it will do for your Internet blog.
After that, we said goodbye, my friend got into a Mercedes Maybach, which costs 500 of my salaries and left for his sports ministry.
Friends, I found George and met him. So in front of you short story a man who played in the Russian Football Premier League a few years ago, and then worked as an expert in the professional sports department.
Fixed matches in Russia
Yes, football! All sports are not clean right now. The Noble Traditions of Olympism long time ago!Well, if we talk only about football, then yes, fixed matches exist in Russia, because you can make great money on this. Only dedicated fans are sure that their club plays honestly and does not lose matches for the sake of quick money. But in football in the world, everything is built on bookmakers, with the help of which a player can get an allowable not 1000 $, and 10 000 $, agree it is tempting. In our country, a player in the 2nd league receives 15-20 thousand, but at the same time he can break down and never enter the field again, which is why the club’s veterans mostly leak, because in the eyes of naive young players it is seen that the football world is honest and will accept with open arms, but in a couple of years they will realize how deeply mistaken.
I myself was like that and played in a little-known city, in a shabby regional championship, and already then agreements were played among the young men, once I myself participated in this. We played in the league with teams that were a year older than us. It was difficult, but we claimed the 3rd place and the last match was played with the 2nd team, which no longer solved any problems. We were all good friends and asked them to give us a match for the sake of medals, they agreed, provided that their player scores 3 goals for us. And so it happened, we won with a score of 4-3, but the match was just terrible, they scored on their own, there was a passing yard in defense and we played very sluggishly, because we knew that the result was guaranteed, but we did not take into account the fact that our someone recorded the game and leaked it to the Federation, a week later we find out that we are being deprived of 3rd place and promoted to another team. It was very disappointing, because so much effort was invested in this season and one game crossed everything out!
In general, fixed matches exist all over the world, just not everyone knows about it. , players, coaches, club owners, directors and people who organize the whole thing may know. Leakage of information there is impossible in principle. Such infa very rarely leaks onto the Internet, as there may be a sharp drawdown of the odds on bets and thus many people will lose tens of millions. If we touch on the topic of agreements specifically in Russia, then in our football the champion is usually known already at the beginning of the playing season, the club owners buy the championship in advance and this is a fact, many have said this. In every round of our championship, a match-fixing always takes place, either the referee is bribed, or the players. Let's say the judge the highest category gets about 100 thousand rubles per match and for the judges this is not much money, but he can get 500 thousand per match, also a minor league player gets 5 thousand per match, and can get 50 thousand, which is why we can often see what kind of pun he is doing the referee, putting left penalties or whistling only in one direction.
I will give examples. All of you know football club Tom. So, to get into the Premier League, she played at least 20 fixed matches! Even Dmitry Tarasov admitted that, as a young player, his team Tom played a fixed match with Spartak from Nalchik, but this Mutko immediately turned on and reproached Tarasov for lying. I am sure that Tarasov spoke the truth. Or let's say the World Cup, which will be played in next year in our country. Do you know that we bought it? Although it seems to many that this was decided by some kind of vote in Zurich. Come on, in FIFA, whoever pays the most for hosting the championship will get it. And all this drawing of lots is the usual theater for simpletons.
Negotiations are also openly practiced in the 1st and 2nd leagues, there are an immeasurable number of them, now almost no one plays honestly. You ask why this is not stopped? Yes, all because behind this are people who are not subject to anyone, who are in the highest echelons of power. I know that many club owners buy teams in order to play fixed matches. And remember, those clubs that sponsor bookmakers will 100% play for it when needed., it’s not just that “1xStavka” became a sponsor of Krasnodar or “LeonBets” of the Urals, well, or “Marathon” became a sponsor of FC Dynamo, and “Parimatch” generally sponsors the Ukrainian League, which constantly burns with agreements. First of all, I want to tell your readers that it is pointless to root for someone now.. I understand that this is interesting, emotions, etc., but is it necessary? Spending your money and nerves on buying tickets, because people stand for hours for the desired tickets and, as a result, can get ugly dedication of the players and a senseless loss. I would like to highlight a few agreements and describe each:
Terek - Rostov, score 2-1, played 08/28/16
You are probably surprised that this match is considered fixed in my rating, but this one is. At that time, Rostov had large debts, taxes and salary scandals for players. Terek needed to win this match to move up the table. Those who are in the subject already knew in advance that there would be a fake removal in the match, and so it happened. In addition to the game, Rostov was not allowed to break through a 100% penalty. Rostov was generally considered the favorite and miss 2 goals from an outsider, it's incomprehensible to the mind, because they don't miss from CSKA and Zenit, and then Terek scored 2 goals, moreover, in 2 minutes! In general, the game was done in 5 minutes. Perhaps someone will say that Rostov was tired after Ajax and there wasn’t enough strength for Terek, but believe me, if Rostov scores, then it’s very difficult for him to score, and here are the goals that Rostov didn’t miss at all, while the coefficient slowly sank and Rostov was no longer a favorite, but Terek.
Ural - Terek, score 3-3, played 08/28/15
These are generally friends who constantly ride each other agreements. I think everyone knew that this was an agreement, since information appeared on the network in advance that the Ural player had bet on the away team, this happened about 2-3 days before the match, of course, the odds immediately sank from 3 to 1.80 ,while when the Urals scored, he did not change! The essence of the agreement was that Ural should surrender the game, because last season Terek helped Ural not to fly out of the Premier League, losing to him in the last round, that is, it turns out that Ural had to Terek. Mutko immediately became alarmed and appointed a Match Fixing Commissioner for the match (this is not usually done, but I would recommend doing this in every match). The day before the match, there was information that Goncharenko would not be present at the match, as well as goalkeeper Zhevnov and defender Martynovich (by the way, all 3 Belarusians), and also unexpectedly, the club director Ivanov disappeared on vacation, this caused even more excitement around the match. Team script made for a look, Ural first scored 2 goals in 20 minutes , immediately Terek equalized, and in the second half he took the lead and the score became 2-3. In principle, everything was as it should be, and literally at the end Erokhin scored. Not particularly happy, Ural moved very badly, and Terek did not score a bunch of chances. But why, you ask, do I consider this match to be fixed, because they tied, and not Terek won? The fact is that on the day of the match, the Commissioner was appointed, and the interested people, of course, knew about this in advance.
Also among these matches:
Ural - Terek 1-4 10/30/2016
Terek - Ural 1-3 05/30/2015
Russia - Belgium, score 3-3, played 03/28/2017
After losing matches, in order to smooth the situation before the Confederations Cup, the Belgians had to surrender the game, and they surrendered it, but only in the second half, eventually drawing, and smoothing out the impending discontent.
Volga Ulyanovsk - Tyumen, score 0-2, played 05/30/2014
It is possible that many fans will disagree with me and say that the Volga simply burned out that day, but I think otherwise, because the Volga often beat Tyumen both at home and away. Another reason why I consider this particular match to be fixed is because the match was for entering the Football National League (FNL), but a few days before the game it was already known that the Volga had no money for a higher division, and Tyumen was already ready both in terms of finances and in terms of the basic structure, so the game from the Volga side was terrible. Fans came to cheer for their favorite team, but they saw sad shit, not a single dangerous moment in the Volga, and two goals in the performance of Tyumen. By the way, after this season, the Volga goalkeeper moved to Tyumen.
Ural - Ufa, score 2-0, played 07/31/2016
Again, I had to win the Urals, because Ufa had debts.
In this match, Krylia also gave up the game due to debts, just like Ural. Although the Internet is full of other versions.
Russia - Turkey, score, 0-0, played 08/31/2016
This is already a political agreement, literally a month before this match, Putin and Erdogan signed a truce and a few days later the match was announced, but that's why the fans were not warned that they would play two vegetables, without attacks and intrigue! The football players rolled the ball from one end of the field to the other and again fucked you with money, since you paid for the ticket.
Rostov - CSKA, score 1-2, played 10/28/2006
I want to say that it is quite difficult to win against Rostov at home, therefore, from a tournament point of view, CSKA needed this particular victory to secure the championship. Kalachev scored a goal in the 77th minute without experiencing any emotion, as if he had not scored against CSKA, but at a two-way training session. And after that moment, Rostov's defense literally disappeared, moments began to appear one after another, which eventually led to a logical goal. Why was there suspicion? And where did I get that this is a deal? Yes, all because in the 2000s, many clubs had big problems with finances and, of course, the players had the same problems, and having already solved all their problems, they decided to hand over the game to the club, which at that time had solid money and went to the championship, as it turned out to be fake. Link to investigation
I gave you just a few matches as an example, but can you imagine how many of them exist! Therefore, think about whether it is worth getting sick at all.
Here is the story friends! At the end of the conversation, Georgy promised me to tell me something interesting about doping in modern sports.
