Tikteknu: today's summary clip in sports, 11.1 (Sport1)
Further evidence that the world of crime permeates Israeli football was given this evening (Wednesday) in the season finale program of "Zeman Emet" on Channel 11, when a comprehensive investigation conducted by journalist Roni Singer was published with the aim of exposing the mechanism of the sale of football games in Israel - from the lower leagues to the top league, the Premier League .
In the investigation, players, coaches and officials in the industry told about offers they received to tilt the results of games in the various leagues, and to influence the game even if in a minimal way by taking the ball outside, into the corner or committing a foul in order to receive a yellow card - all in exchange for sums of money paid by criminal parties involved in illegal gambling.
Not succeeding, not able, not even trying.
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According to the article, the police act lazily.
Even when she had evidence of a heavy suspicion of game-fixing in League A, she did not summon the suspects for questioning.
Even when a complaint was filed with the Israel Police by the association after three people failed polygraph tests at its initiative (the rest of the invitees refused to come), the police did not summon the suspects for questioning despite the filing of the complaint.
According to a businessman who is very close to Israeli football, "The smaller the club and the players are paid a low salary, the easier it is to tempt them. Obviously they will ask a goalkeeper or a stopper to tip, it is easier for them to decide. I have seen with my own eyes criminal elements offering money to the players. Sitting and supervising with those who did with him the deal, and imagines what he will do if he doesn't. These are factors that you don't want to not fulfill your part of the contract with them. As soon as a person steps on the field and identifies people to whom he owes money, he is not an athlete, but a pawn. Tens of thousands of shekels on whose bets he will receive Yellow, some funds... It's a yellow card worth NIS 50,000."
According to him, "the groups don't want to deal with it. They have no interest in investigating it."
According to a former player in the Premier League - it happens in the Premier League as well: "I am disgusted by what is happening there. Selling a game is a brilliant crime, you cannot be caught. It is impossible to prove it.
"A player from the Premier League who got involved in gambling...suddenly he elbows someone and is sent away, that's money. Tens of thousands of shekels for trivial acts. This made him stressful, with constant inquiries from dubious parties.
"One time a party from the opposing team came into our dressing room, arranged for us vacation and waste, and asked us to make sure that his team wins... in the end we lost... this is a team that if we play against them 10 games, they are not able to score a goal.
That day they gave two... Cora.
There are days like that... once you're in it and need money, you do what you're told.
I did in a day, a two-year cash register.
You know that if you let the ball roll, you get NIS 100,000, so you let it.
"The thing you can do is worry that you will lose. Make a penalty. Be the guardian parent. The 12th player. I saw money passing. Steeps, a lot of bills. These are things that cannot be caught. You cannot prove it."
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Another player who previously played in the Premier League: "Someone from the opponent told me, 'Many players from your team have already sold the game. You will sell too.'
M., another former player in the Premier League, said: "As soon as a player or a referee receives an offer for NIS 30,000 if he now whistles entirely for offside, that's the problem, that's why we won't get out of it."
A., a player in the National League, said: "They told me, 'Don't try, the game is already addicting. Don't go up to hit, don't take penalty kicks, don't kick penalties.'"
Amir Navon, the vice president of the association, on the testimony about the sales of games in the Premier League: "It's not surprising, but it makes me raise my eyebrows.
We are aware of this, it is part of our daily work.
We are already teaching the younger generation and warning them.
The space is gray, it's hard to prove such things.
It's a criminal matter.
The police should investigate this.
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Israeli soccer
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Illegal gambling
game bias