The player may have set up the entire La Liga.
Spaniards do not believe the case is isolated
Sevilla defender Quique Salas has been arrested by police. He is accused of organizing match-fixing. The prosecutor’s office is convinced that the versatile 22-year-old defender, who played for his hometown club in 14 matches of the new season, conspired with friends and family members for profit. The scammers used a dangerous and banal scheme for them. Salas received 10 yellow cards last season. Of these, he collected 7 fights out of 8 at the end of the championship.
They bet on yellow cards. We earned around 10,000 euros per month. The player’s official salary is significantly higher. Prosecutors and police were interested in his behavior because betting on bookings was high during Sevilla matches. Strange coincidence. Salas is not Sergio Ramos for people to believe in his cards. Quique played for the Spanish youth team and scored against Betis in the derby. He made assists in the new season. Club student.
Sevilla trusted Salas and were shocked by his stupidity. A guy with a salary of 1.25 million euros a year doesn’t appreciate what he has. Kike could sign a contract in the coming years with a salary of 3-4 million euros per year. Even after paying Spanish taxes, there was a huge amount of money left. Sevilla plans to cooperate with the investigation. There was a rumor that Kike was trying to get along with other players. If there are witnesses, he will be punished more quickly in court.
According to Spanish law, the footballer faces a prison sentence of six months to three years. Chances are there is solid evidence. It is almost certain that the judge authorized the wiretaps. From now on, prosecutors will have access to correspondence between Quique Salas and his relatives. Also don’t forget about disqualification in football. Spanish sports authorities only need solid evidence of at least one bet and collusion with a yellow card to take action.
Spanish fans don’t believe Quique Salas was stupid alone. If the virus has penetrated La Liga, where is the guarantee that footballers will not organize matches? After all, a defender can help crooks not only with a yellow card. You can simply abandon the fight so that your team does not play to zero. We remember the story where famous La Liga referees brought bags of money to buy real estate in Spain. Fans are upset that they were cheated.
Footballers constantly break the laws
For now, Salas is protected by presumption. Not guilty until there is a court verdict. But we need to understand how justice works. The prosecutor wants a promotion. Losing cases won’t go to court, so no one is throwing hopeless cases before arresting a La Liga player. They first make sure the person was stupid. They are looking for evidence. And then the arrests follow. There have been so many different misdeeds from players in recent years that it’s easy to believe Salas is stupid.
I knew West Ham’s Paquette was caught, but he didn’t stop. Unfortunately, footballers often break the law. Legendary goalkeeper Buffon lost around 2 million euros on illegal bets. Finally, he gave them to the bandits. The mafia could use Buffon’s millions to buy drugs and resell them. After which thousands of people suffered. You know the history of Promes in detail. The chance factor is excluded there, because there are verdicts of two courts.
Recently, a group of Serie A soccer players were sanctioned for betting on soccer matches. In Italy, it is said that they turned a blind eye to the misdeeds of other stars so that Spalletti could still have people in the core of the team for Euro 2024. Unfortunately, the process is eternal. Rich athletes do stupid things. The lawyers try to save them from prison. And then everything repeats itself. The only difference lies in the scale of the violations. Sánchez will not stay in prison for long, but the scandal concerning him is very shameful.
Sánchez could earn money and go into business with relatives and friends. But no, you have to lie. The level of promiscuity and narrow-mindedness of many footballers is shocking. There are no coaches who are both feared and respected, not to be stupid. But there is the world of social networks. There, bastards often become heroes. Can we blame mass culture? For years people have been selling “bad guys” as the main characters in movies, books, etc.
As a result, moral boundaries have become blurred. Many people do not see the crimes. Or do they see, but read strange comments written by robots to defend the criminals? For example, there have been information attacks in favor of the Package. The West Ham midfielder risks a life ban. A Brazilian with a salary of 9.2 million euros per year was smart enough to receive yellow cards so that his friends could earn several thousand euros. He could have simply given them money.
Salas made the main mistake of a criminal
The criminal always believes that he has covered his tracks perfectly and is smarter than the detectives. Footballers think: “What are you going to do to us, we are millionaires?” Quique Salas thought that he would not be caught, even if he had read about Paqueta’s problems in the newspapers. But as they try to hush up the Lucas case so as not to expel the guy from the Brazilian national team, Spain has repeated Paqueta’s mistake. Justice works when punishment is inevitable. There is nothing like that here, there are still scandals. In Italy, Buffon and other footballers of his generation were not punished as they should have been – the youngsters have moved on. Tonali of Newcastle and the Italian national team would bet on football again. Although he received treatment and served his disqualification. Footballers behave like “golden youngsters”, for whom the law is not written. But the behavior of children partly explains the poor development of the brain. Senior footballers should not make excuses. At 22, Salas is no longer a child.
We have no idea what Kike expected. We are simply seeing that it has become easier for scammers to recruit people to commit crimes. It is enough to brainwash using one of the classic methods, like offers for easy money – that’s all, a ready-made criminal in your pocket. Then it’s a question of technology. After all, Salas could bet through black bookmakers in Asia, something none of his accomplices had ever seen. But the Spanish also know how to break the laws.
One of the local sites sold fake tickets to matches of various giants. For example, Liverpool. Thousands of fans are suffering, even mothers with children. Football is a multi-billion dollar business, which means a lot of money can be stolen. And illegal betting is a growing problem. The fight hadn’t even started. The strategy of the football authorities is to bury their heads in the sand. Many have been eliminated, new scandals are breaking out. Unfortunately, there may be many Salas of this type.
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