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Real Madrid accuse Barcelona of paying former refereeing official Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira between 2001 and 2018.
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Association football club in Spain
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol is a Spanish professional association football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football.
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City and municipality in Catalonia, Spain
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain after Madrid. With a population of 1.7 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.7 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area of the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan.
More on Wikipedia ↗The Catalans enjoyed their best run of silverware in Spain and Europe during the years in question.
The governing body of European football wants to clarify what happened between 2001 and 2018, years in which Barcelona paid over $9 million to Negreira.
Real Madrid are ramping up their involvement in the sports corruption investigation concerning Barcelona after sending a ‘50,000-page’ dossier to Uefa