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Barcelona President Joan Laporta Charged Over Referee Scandal

Barcelona President Joan Laporta Charged Over Referee Scandal

The club itself and two of its former presidents, Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, as well as the former head of Spain’s referees body, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, and his son have already been charged.

Laporta has been charged in relation to his first spell as president of Barcelona from 2003 to 2010.

In his report published on Wednesday, the judge leading the investigation said, in his opinion, Laporta could not benefit from the statute of limitations because of the seriousness of the accusations.

Negreira allegedly earned over seven million euros ($7.5 million) from Barcelona between 2001 and 2018, through companies supposedly producing refereeing reports for the club.

Barcelona, the 27-time Spanish champions, have been fighting off accusations for months and deny any wrongdoing.

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LinaTv Sport: Lobi Stars Goalkeeper Jimoh Fit to Face Katsina

LinaTv Sport: Lobi Stars Goalkeeper Jimoh Fit to Face Katsina

Lobi Stars goalkeeper Lucky Jimoh is expected to feature in Wednesday’s (today) Nigeria Premier Football League matchday three encounters against Katsina United.

The Pride of Benue acting team manager, Ode Ogah, said Jimoh is fit and ready for the team’s away game.

He said;

“If everything goes as it should, he’ll be available for our away game against Katsina United.”

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SPORTS: AMUSAN BREEZES INTO FINAL

SPORTS: AMUSAN BREEZES INTO FINAL

World champion and record holder in women’s 100m hurdles, Tobi Amusan, is one race away from successfully defending the title she won in 2022 after easing into the final of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday.

She clocked a time of 12.56secs to win the second semi-final and take one of the automatic spots in the final, which comes up in the evening session on Thursday (today).

Like she did in the heats on Tuesday, Amusan picked up slowly from the starting block and crossed the line ahead of Jamaica’s Ackera Nugent, who picked the second qualifying spot in the race in a time 12.60secs.

Amusan’s 12.56 is the eight best qualifying time for the final.

The 26-year-old will now return for the heavyweight final today, when she will line up against American former world record holder Kendra Harrison, who leads the pack with 12.33secs from the first semi-final and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who posted 12.41secs to win the last semi-final.

At last year’s championships in Oregon, Amusan made history as Nigeria’s first-ever world champion and record holder, setting the current world record 12.12secs in the semi-final. She returned in the final in 12.06secs but it didn’t stand as it was wind-assisted.

After enjoying a steady start to her preparation for this year’s championship, running a season’s best of 12.34secs at a Dia mold League meeting in July, she was hit by a provisional suspension by the Athletics Integrity Unit for three whereabout failures in 12 months.

Relief, however, came two days before Budapest 2023, after a panel of the Disciplinary Tribunal, by majority decision, found her not guilty of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) of three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period.

The final is slated for 7:22pm Nigerian time