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Spanish football scandal
The Negreira case is a sports corruption investigation involving Spanish football club Barcelona and José María Enríquez Negreira, a former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). The case centers on payments totaling €7.4 million, made by Barcelona to companies linked to Negreira between 2001 and 2018, during his time as the Vice President of the CTA. Barcelona claim they hired Negreira as an external consultant to provide technical reports on refereeing.
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Spanish lawyer
Xavier Tebas Medrano, better known as Javier Tebas, is a Spanish lawyer and the president of Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, the association responsible for administering Spain's two highest-tier professional football leagues. First elected in April 2013, he was re-elected for a fourth term in December 2023 until 2027. Tebas has promised that this will be his last term, ending in 2027. He is a supporter of the far-right Spanish Vox party.
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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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