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He added: “So me, Hernan Lopez, Carlos Martinez, and me nor Juan Ángel Napout, nor Bedoya wanted to modify that structure.”
Burzaco has confessed to paying tens of millions in bribes, and also testified that he was himself offered a bribe to hand over the Copa Libertadores rights. The bribe was offered by the owner of the TV station suing Fox, he said.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Juan Ángel Napout of Paraguay arrives at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
At certain points, Burzaco alluded to a close relationship with Martinez and Lopez.
Lopez, 47, was a rising star in Fox television and climbed to the position of chief executive of Fox International Channels, before departing the company in a January 2016 shakeup. He had been credited with spearheading a successful expansion into new markets. On his way out, Lopez received financial backing from Fox for a new podcasting startup company based in Los Angeles. His lawyers told the Guardian the departure was “was amicable and had nothing to do with any investigations”.
Martinez, 48, is the current president of Fox’s Latin American television division, having climbed the company’s ranks over several years.
Burzaco was asked, under cross-examination, about a series of 2011 emails with Lopez in which Burzaco offered to broker a meeting with the then president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, by using his connections with Grondona, the Argentinian soccer chief who was Blatter’s No 2.
Burzaco also recalled a meeting where the Fox executives, Lopez and Martinez, met José Maria Marin, the former head of Brazilian football, who is currently on trial; and Marco Polo Del Nero, who replaced Marin after his arrest and has been indicted in the case. Both are accused of accepting multimillion dollar bribes in exchange for tournament rights, including the Copa Libertadores.
Burzaco said the meeting occurred at the Waldorf Hilton hotel in London on May 2013 as the group visited the city for the Champions League final that year between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.
The meeting’s purpose, Burzaco said, was for Fox to forge “stronger link[s]” with officials in Brazilian football. At a meeting straight afterwards, where Lopez and Martinez were not present, according to Burzaco’s account, the Brazilian officials complained to him that their annual seven-figure bribe payments for the Copa Libertadores rights had not yet been paid.
Shortly after, the US government announced its investigation into Fifa and corruption in world football, following a dramatic morning raid at a hotel in Zurich in May 2015, Conmebol announced it was reviewing its rights contracts for events including the Copa Libertadores. T&T’s contract was subsequently cancelled and Fox signed a direct agreement with the governing body.<|endoftext|>A teenage football player has died while playing for his team in an under 16s match in Dublin today.
The boy, who has not been named, played for Belvedere FC.
It is understood the lunchtime game against St Kevin's Boys had just begun in Santry when he collapsed.
The club has issued a statement saying: "Belvedere Football Club is mourning the death of one of our U16 players who tragically collapsed while playing for the club today.
“While all of our members are in deep shock, our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this tragic time.
“We ask that the privacy of the family be respected as the club supports them in grieving their boy. We won't be releasing the player's name until all family members have been contacted.
“The club will also support our U16 players, coaches and parents who are devastated at the loss of a very popular team-mate."
The club is one of the most successful schoolboys clubs in the country. Its social media accounts have been flooded with messages of sympathy and support from around the world.<|endoftext|>The first step to overcoming and preventing animal cruelty is to first realise that it exists — sometimes hidden in plain sight, right under our very noses.
This is the core theme of Jo-Anne McArthur's haunting and inspiring photographic collection, We Animals: an extensive global series which captures the personal experience of individual animals' lives, amongst the unknown billions who are bred, kept and farmed for human use every year.
McArthur's lens is focussed on these 'invisible' animals who are trapped in systems designed to keep their suffering hidden from the world — but whose plight her photographs shed much-needed light on.
Powerfully disturbing. These images take us to dark and hidden places visited by only a few determined and courageous individuals like Jo-Anne McArthur. Dr. Jane Goodall
McArthur's deeply moving and ever-growing photographic series has been opening eyes, hearts and minds to the reality of our relationship with animals around the world for the last 15 years.
At times harrowing, in other moments joyful, the We Animals Archive is a testament to McArthur's dedication to making the invisible, visible.
Her aim is not to traumatise people but, instead, to imbue each and every one of us with the inspiration and willpower to help these most defenceless of living beings we share this planet with.
1. The calf who has been taken from his mother.
'Bobby' calves are the dark secret of the dairy industry. In Australia, hundreds of thousands of these male newborns are taken from their mothers, and killed in their first week of life — all so that their mothers milk can be harvested for human consumption. Elsewhere throughout the world, 'veal crates', such as these, are common — where bewildered males calves are chained, restrained and 'fattened' before being sent off to the slaughterhouse.
Lend your voice to calves like him: tell the dairy industry babies aren't 'waste products'.
2. The calf who lived.
Born on a dairy farm, Hansel was taken from his mother when he was just a young calf, and loaded onto a truck bound for the slaughterhouse alongside other 'useless' male calves. But, thankfully, his story didn't end there... Rescued at the last moment by someone who couldn't bear to see this brown-eyed beauty killed, Hansel now lives at Edgar's Mission Farm Sanctuary, where he has been given something denied to so many thousands of male calves — the chance to grow up.
Discover how easy it is to help spare more calves like Hansel by enjoying delicious dairy free alternatives to milk, chocolate, cheese and more.
3. This mother who just wants to reach her baby.
This mother pig did the best she could to care for her piglets from the confines of a factory farm 'farrowing crate'. Yet she was forced to watch on as they each had their teeth cut and tails severed through the bone — without any pain relief. If they were male, they may have been castrated at the same time. All of this pain inflicted on defenceless animals is 'standard' industry practice.
Whether they're a pig, a cow, a hen or a human, there's something most mums have in common — to watch their babies grow up. Find out how you can help make this dream come true.
4. These pigs who have never felt the sun on their faces.
Pigs are highly intelligent — and have even been observed playing video games! Yet, in factory farms, these clever and curious animals are confined in crowded, barren pens with no quality of life whatsoever. McArthur says that people rarely want to believe that these images she shows them of animal cruelty and suffering could ever possibly be occuring in their own country, and yet:
Whether the pig is in Australia, Sweden or Italy, the conditions are appalling, the confinement is severe and her suffering is real. Jo-Anne McArthur
Wherever animals like these pigs are farmed en masse, there will be deprivation, fear and suffering. But by reducing the demand for products like pork, bacon and ham you can help spare animals from factory farm cruelty — get all the details in our free Veg Starter Kit.
5. The pigs who only have hours to live.
The first time many pigs will see the outside world is on the last day of their lives — from narrow slits in the back of a cramped truck on the way to the slaughterhouse. Whether they've been raised as factory farmed or free range pigs, these highly sensitive animals will all risk a horrific death in gas chambers.
You have the power to help spare pigs from this terrifying fate.
6. These hens who are forced to share a cage with a dead friend.
A hen's natural impulse is to build a comfortable nest to lay her eggs. To perch, to explore, to dustbathe in the sun, and to stretch her wings. But in cage egg farms, these social and curious animals are denied these most basic of freedoms. With up to tens of thousands of hens kept in a single shed, individual care is near impossible — with studies suggesting that 1 in 6 caged hens lives in chronic pain with a broken bone.
So how different are free range egg farms? How about barn laid or organic? The answer might surprise you.
7. The chick whose death was 'just a statistic'.
Chickens farmed for meat fare no better. Even though they are killed at barely 6 weeks old, conditions inside most farm sheds are so appalling that a staggering 20 million young chickens suffer and die every year before reaching 'slaughter age'. Most shocking of all is that — instead of improving conditions for the chickens — factory farmers expect and 'write off' these tragic deaths in their financial plans. Extreme suffering is all just part of doing business on a factory farm.
But there is good news. From crunchy golden nuggets and old school parmas, to stir-fry strips and fancy fillets, you can enjoy them all without harming any chickens at all: Find out how.
8. These sheep who don't know things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Rounded up from wide-open paddocks, crammed into trucks — even in the middle of sweltering summer days — the gruelling journey has only just begun for these young Aussie sheep. They'll be loaded onto a live export ship, and the ones who survive that 'hell on the high sea' will be sold in countries where there are no laws to protect them from extreme cruelty. Our investigations have revealed shocking routine abuse and brutal slaughter of exported Australian sheep, cows and goats — with most exported animals forced to endure excruciating, fully conscious slaughter.
You can lend your voice to the victims of live export right now, right here.
9. The goat who will only ever know kindness.