{"id":326590,"date":"2023-04-18T05:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=326590"},"modified":"2023-04-18T05:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:39:39","slug":"barcelona-president-denies-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/barcelona-president-denies-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona president denies corruption allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Barcelona<br \/>\nAmid allegations of corruption to \u201cinfluence referees\u201d, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta on Monday categorically denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the side \u201chave never done anything with intentions of taking a sporting advantage in a competition\u201d.<br \/>\nSpeaking at a press conference at the club\u2019s Camp Nou stadium, Laporta maintained that his club was one with \u201cvalues\u201d and while they liked to wanted to win, it was through fair play and on their own merit.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are an institution of values,\u201d the Barca president said, \u201cWe like to win by playing well.<br \/>\nThat is how we win. We don\u2019t like to win because we had help from the referees.\u201d<br \/>\nThe remarks came amidst corruption charges against the Catalan club by Spanish prosecutors last month. Earlier this year, Spanish authorities uncovered payments of more than \u20ac7.3 million ($7.8 million) to a company owned by a former refereeing chief Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.<br \/>\nReferring to the rumours as a \u201csmear campaign\u201d, Laporta said: \u201cNever has a campaign against Bacra paid off. Barcelona continues to be a point of reference in the world of sports and Barcelona continues to be loved and admired by millions of Catalans and millions of people around the world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBasically, it is an orchestrated campaign to destroy the reputation of FC Barcelona\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona Amid allegations of corruption to \u201cinfluence referees\u201d, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta on Monday categorically denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the side \u201chave never done anything with intentions of taking a sporting advantage in a competition\u201d. Speaking at a press conference at the club\u2019s Camp Nou stadium, Laporta maintained that his club was one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-326590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona president denies corruption allegations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/barcelona-president-denies-corruption-allegations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barcelona president denies corruption allegations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Barcelona Amid allegations of corruption to \u201cinfluence referees\u201d, FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta on Monday categorically denied any wrongdoing, claiming that the side \u201chave never done anything with intentions of taking a sporting advantage in a competition\u201d. 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