No inicio da semana saiu um artigo na revista The New Yorker sobre o Football Leaks… Link
Nós sabemos que o FL não tem nenhuma relação com o Benfica, mas como é usual em Portugal tenta-se fazer uma ligação entre o FL e a divulgação dos emails do Benfica negando simultaneamente essa mesma ligação. Decidam-se RP é autor de ambos os roubos ou não? Se sim e como sabemos RP pedia dinheiro para não divulgar leaks… RP "ofereceu" os emails? Até o Chico, FJM, tenta utilizar o artigo da The New Yorker para justificar o "interesse publico"... Chico… burro… ainda não percebeste que TU NÃO ÉS JORNALISTA?!
Começando pela conclusão…
Ao contrário do que a comunicação do porto tenta passar… este artigo poucas ou nenhumas novidades traz para quem conhece o caso…
Relativamente a clubes portugueses os únicos destaques são que Alexandre PdC recebe comissões do clube presidido pelo pai e que BdC era contra fundos e empresários (lembra alguém?) mas a favor de Caálas (e posteriormente Batuques).
Estabelece uma ligação entre o FL o caso do roubo e divulgação dos emails do Benfica pela pessoa de FJM.
Sobre o Benfica são escritos uns parágrafos claramente influenciados pela "fonte", quer no conteúdo quer na forma.
Sobre o Benfica são escritos uns parágrafos claramente influenciados pela "fonte", quer no conteúdo quer na forma.
O artigo tem dois tipos de abordagem conforme a fonte é FJM ou qualquer outra… Numa abordagem é informativo sem grande adjetivação e dedica-se a elencar factos e na outra tenta estabelecer a narrativa classificada pela ERSE como burlesca.
Mas vamos ao artigo.
Começando por revisitar os primórdios e evolução do FL e tendo como fonte principal Rafael Buschmann, um repórter da Der Spiegel.
"The message arrived early in the afternoon of September 29, 2015. (…) “Welcome to Football Leaks,” (…) “This project aims to show the hidden side of football. Unfortunately, the sport we love so much is rotten and it is time to say ‘enough.’ ”
"Below was a collection of previously unseen documents involving Sporting Lisbon, the eighteen-time winner of Portugal’s national league. “
Começando por revisitar os primórdios e evolução do FL e tendo como fonte principal Rafael Buschmann, um repórter da Der Spiegel.
"The message arrived early in the afternoon of September 29, 2015. (…) “Welcome to Football Leaks,” (…) “This project aims to show the hidden side of football. Unfortunately, the sport we love so much is rotten and it is time to say ‘enough.’ ”
"Below was a collection of previously unseen documents involving Sporting Lisbon, the eighteen-time winner of Portugal’s national league. “
Lol… ver lagartos a defender este artigo como grande jornalismo com Sporting Lisbon e 18 títulos… O inimigo do meu inimigo meu amigo é ou o que não faz olhar a meios para atingir fins!
" The first documents released by Football Leaks related to a controversial investment model known as third-party ownership. (…) But the contracts that Varela read on Football Leaks showed that Sporting Lisbon had entered into a secret, T.P.O.-like arrangement with an Angolan club named Recreativo da Caála. (…) One transaction that Pinto pieced together—a loan deal between F.C. Porto and Real Madrid for a young Brazilian midfielder named Casemiro—appeared to include a seven-hundred-thousand-euro fee for the son of Porto’s club president. “I felt like they were stealing my football club,” Pinto told me. “And that no one in Portugal even cared about it.”
Conforme "sabemos" o FL trouxe novidades sobre porto e sporting, entre outros… mas muito pouco sobre o Benfica… aliás RP não tem nada a ver com os mails do Benfica, certo?
"The warrant made no mention of the Benfica e-mails and the subsequent embarrassment for Portugal’s biggest soccer club" (…) "When I asked Pinto if he had anything to do with the Benfica scandal, he denied it, in Pintoesque fashion: “I’ve never seen a statement from the police or the Portuguese authorities linking me to this.”
Passa de seguida a tentar estabelecer RP como whistleblower…
"In the following three years, Pinto supplied Der Spiegel (… ) with four terabytes of confidential information, more than eighty-eight million documents—a leak almost twice the size of the Panama Papers and sixty times that of Edward Snowden’s. (…) Pinto has studied the cases of celebrated leakers (his lawyer, William Bourdon, represented Snowden), and I often got the impression that he is trying to expand the definition of what a whistle-blower can be. "
Aqui gostaria de lembrar que Assange está preso e Snowden exilado na Rússia! Ou seja… não são heróis como alguma mitologia tenta fazer passar.
O artigo revela ainda falhas morais, já conhecidas, do nosso not-whitleblower favorito:
"On September 18th, Pinto had €31.67 in his checking account. The following day, he received a transfer of €34,627 from a client account at Caledonian Bank, (…). On Friday, October 11th, Pinto received a second windfall from Caledonian Bank (…) of €227,332.80. (…) According to a criminal complaint, filed with Portuguese prosecutors the following week, someone had used a phishing attack to access Caledonian Bank’s backup e-mail servers. Equipped with usernames and passwords, the hacker had ordered the transfers to a Deutsche Bank account in Lisbon registered to Rui Pinto. "Dass… um gajo que tem 30€ no banco tem conta no Deutsche Bank? Mas já não nos interessa sequer discutir o RP… já está mais que estabelecido que é um criminoso e não um whistleblower.
"On October 3rd, four days after Pinto posted the first documents, Lucas received an e-mail in excellent Portuguese from someone calling himself Artem Lobuzov. (...) Lobuzov threatened Lucas with more damaging disclosures. “The leak is worse than you can imagine,” he wrote. (…) “You certainly wouldn’t want that, right? But we can talk . . .” (…) Lucas reported the e-mail to the Portuguese police, who had already received a complaint about Football Leaks from Sporting Lisbon. "
"On September 18th, Pinto had €31.67 in his checking account. The following day, he received a transfer of €34,627 from a client account at Caledonian Bank, (…). On Friday, October 11th, Pinto received a second windfall from Caledonian Bank (…) of €227,332.80. (…) According to a criminal complaint, filed with Portuguese prosecutors the following week, someone had used a phishing attack to access Caledonian Bank’s backup e-mail servers. Equipped with usernames and passwords, the hacker had ordered the transfers to a Deutsche Bank account in Lisbon registered to Rui Pinto. "Dass… um gajo que tem 30€ no banco tem conta no Deutsche Bank? Mas já não nos interessa sequer discutir o RP… já está mais que estabelecido que é um criminoso e não um whistleblower.
"On October 3rd, four days after Pinto posted the first documents, Lucas received an e-mail in excellent Portuguese from someone calling himself Artem Lobuzov. (...) Lobuzov threatened Lucas with more damaging disclosures. “The leak is worse than you can imagine,” he wrote. (…) “You certainly wouldn’t want that, right? But we can talk . . .” (…) Lucas reported the e-mail to the Portuguese police, who had already received a complaint about Football Leaks from Sporting Lisbon. "
Sim, amigos… convém sempre recordar que quem apresentou queixas sobre o FL foram a Doyen e o sporting.
"In Portugal, too, interest in Football Leaks had fallen away. After the initial stories about Sporting Lisbon and F.C. Porto, the platform had focussed mainly on the sport’s larger leagues. "
"In Portugal, too, interest in Football Leaks had fallen away. After the initial stories about Sporting Lisbon and F.C. Porto, the platform had focussed mainly on the sport’s larger leagues. "
Chegamos a meio do artigo e novidades? Nenhuma… apenas uma compilação e resumo de tudo o que se foi sabendo ao longo deste tempo…
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"But, on a Tuesday afternoon that April, Francisco Marques, the communications director for F.C. Porto, was leaving a restaurant near Porto’s stadium when he received a message from an encrypted e-mail platform called Tutanota."
Se RP sempre negou, conforme é relatado no texto que tenha relação com os emails do Benfica. Porquê e como é estabelecida esta relação?
Entramos aqui na parte que que é claramente parcial, pois a fonte é alguém interessado.
Entramos aqui na parte que que é claramente parcial, pois a fonte é alguém interessado.
"When Marques dropped me off at my hotel in Porto."
Atente-se no paragrafo integralmente transcrito abaixo… e compare-se com as citações anteriores…
"The rivalry between Benfica and F.C. Porto contains multitudes. It is the south against the north; the capital against the rest; cosmopolitan glamour against honest toil. Between them, the clubs have won the Portuguese league sixty-five times. In a country of ten million people, Benfica claims to have six million supporters, an assertion that gives rise to the idea that it is the most powerful institution in the country. Supporters of other clubs refer to Benfica as the Octopus and to the supposed shadowy nature of its influence in Portuguese society as Benfiquistão, or Benficastan. When I asked Marques whether he considered returning the e-mails, he laughed. “No,” he said. “This is a war.”"
A visão sectária patente na dialética introdutória… o caracter regional de um clube que quer regionalizar o que é nacional… capital vs resto do país (lol! escrito como sendo o porto a representar o resto)… glamour vs trabalho honesto (um insolvente falar de honestidade)!
A contradição patente na tentativa da negação e afirmação da mesma realidade simultaneamente… "gives rise to the idea that it is the most powerful institution in the country" vs "influence in Portuguese society as Benfiquistão".
A própria utilização da expressão benfiquistão… não existe no texto completo do artigo mais nenhuma expressão pejorativa relativamente a mais nenhum individuo ou instituição referido… nem a CR que é acusado de violação!
Só este paragrafo introdutório demonstra a narrativa que foi transmitida pela "fonte" ao autor do artigo!
"“There were many dirty things,” Marques told me. The e-mails contained medical records and conversations between club officials and their wives, along with player contracts, tactical reports, and the club’s internal finances. "
"“There were many dirty things,” Marques told me. The e-mails contained medical records and conversations between club officials and their wives, along with player contracts, tactical reports, and the club’s internal finances. "
Dirty things?
Ó Marques… repete lá de novo… disso tudo que é mesmo dirty? Relatórios médicos? Para que os querias? Conversas entre dirigentes e as esposas? Tal pai tal filho! Como dizia o Serrão… diga 1! Incrivel como mesmo sem contraditório não consegue acusar o Benfica de um único crime!
"The Benfica scandal, the biggest in Portuguese soccer in recent decades, has driven the enmity between the clubs to new heights. Benfica is currently suing F.C. Porto, seeking seventeen million euros in damages."
"The Benfica scandal, the biggest in Portuguese soccer in recent decades, has driven the enmity between the clubs to new heights. Benfica is currently suing F.C. Porto, seeking seventeen million euros in damages."
Então o maior escândalo origina pedidos de indemnização contra o porto? O jornalista não encontra aqui nada que lhe pareça estranho e conflituante com a narrativa que lhe venderam e à qual ele não procurou contraditório?
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Após estes curtos e parciais parágrafos, muda a fonte e volta ao foco principal… descrevendo a fase final do FL, com as revelações de violações do fair play financeiro da UEFA pelo PSG, superliga europeia e a acusação de violação de CR… e a detenção do RP.
At the time, Der Spiegel and the E.I.C. were preparing their second wave of Football Leaks articles. (…) The first was about how the most profligate clubs—namely, the Qatar-backed Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City, which is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi’s royal family—had been able to defy the sport’s spending rules. (…) Der Spiegel also pursued a story about a long-rumored plan for Europe’s biggest clubs to leave their national leagues and form a closed, N.F.L.-style competition covering the Continent. (…) In September, in an interview with Der Spiegel, Mayorga accused Ronaldo of raping her, and the Las Vegas police opened an investigation.
In the middle of January, 2019, Pinto’s father and his stepmother, Elizabeth, visited him. (…) The following evening, Pinto and his father went to the supermarket. When they returned to Pinto’s street, there were police cars and men in uniform. “I realized, O.K., they are coming for me,” he said. (…) Pinto was released under house arrest.Algum de vocês se vir a policia na sua rua imagina que "eles vieram por mim"?
O artigo finaliza com a descrição da situação atual de RP.
Pinto was extradited to Lisbon on March 21st. (…) in Portugal, Pinto’s return was front-page news. (…) Benfica Market, which has gone quiet since Pinto’s arrest.
While Pinto awaits his trial, he is being held at a prison next to police headquarters, in central Lisbon. Pinto’s Portuguese lawyer, told me that he expected prosecutors to try to add the theft of Benfica’s e-mails to the case.
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Pinto was extradited to Lisbon on March 21st. (…) in Portugal, Pinto’s return was front-page news. (…) Benfica Market, which has gone quiet since Pinto’s arrest.
While Pinto awaits his trial, he is being held at a prison next to police headquarters, in central Lisbon. Pinto’s Portuguese lawyer, told me that he expected prosecutors to try to add the theft of Benfica’s e-mails to the case.
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