FIFA confirms the sanction to Trippier for violating the betting regulations
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Lidia Marín
, 22 January 2021
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The appeal filed by Atletico Madrid against the sanction imposed on Kieran Trippier in December has not prospered and FIFA has confirmed the suspension of the player from the Madrid team, a sanction of 10 weeks. Atletico Madrid loses its starting right-back until the 28 [...]
Sports sponsorships in the eye of the hurricane
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Lidia Marín
, 30 December 2020
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It has been one of the themes during this year 2020. Bookmaker sponsorships in football and other sports have brought a lot of queue in the wake of the Royal Decree on commercial communications that explicitly prohibits the advertising of gambling operators on team kits [...]
FIFA and UN fight together against manipulation in football
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Lidia Marín
, 22 December 2020
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The fight against manipulation in football and sports betting is one of the main fronts on which the International Association Football Federation (FIFA) acts, which has now joined forces with the UN to fight corruption. The General Directorate for the Regulation of Gambling in [...]
Garzón's advertising veto of online operators continues to bring queue
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Lidia Marín
, 4 November 2020
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The letter that last week the Minister of Consumption Alberto Garzón sent to 25 professional football clubs of the first and second division, urging them to cancel commercial agreements with bookmakers in view of the upcoming approval in the Council of Ministers of the Royal Decree on communications [...]
Clubs to terminate advertising contracts with bookmakers
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Lidia Marín
, 30 October 2020
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As published yesterday by the general press, the Minister Alberto Garzón would have warned 25 clubs of the professional football league, in first and second division, that they should terminate their sponsorship agreements with bookmakers given the upcoming approval in the Council of ministers of the regulations [...]
GVC enters the Portuguese sports betting market
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Lidia Marín
, 28 October 2020
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GVC, the well-known British company based in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, expands its presence in the European sports betting market with the acquisition of the Portuguese Bet.pt . GVC Holdings owns several online casinos such as CasinoClub and well-known poker rooms such as partypoker; although its [...]
Winamax does not give foot with ball
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Lidia Marín
, 2 October 2020
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After his controversial tweet on the occasion of the passage of the French football teams Olympique de Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain to the semifinals of the Champions League, the online betting and poker portal Winamax has done it again, and it has not been one but two tweets in [...]
Brazil could legalize online sports betting
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Lidia Marín
, 25 September 2020
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Brazil is suffering one of its worst economic crises as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Due to its power, the Latin American giant has always been an appetizing dish for companies in the igaming industry, be it operators or suppliers. However, Brazil suffers from a [...]
The Santander League Starts
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Lidia Marín
, 14 September 2020
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The professional football competition has started this weekend in the first and second divisions. With a season marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and, at the moment, without an audience in the stadiums, LaLiga has started with the great Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atlético that have seen [...]
Are bookmaker sponsorships viable in football?
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Lidia Marín
, 4 September 2020
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In statements to the laSexta television channel, Consumer Minister Alberto Garzón described it as temerity that the teams of the professional football league continued to close sponsorship agreements with bookmakers with a view to the 2020/21 season that will begin this September. Bearing in mind the total prohibition of [...]
Winamax heavily criticized for controversial tweet
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Lidia Marín
, 26 August 2020
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The French operator specializing in sports betting and online poker Winamax has been heavily criticized for a controversial tweet in which it echoed a text by the French hip-hop duo PNL. Although the homophobic tweet was deleted immediately, it did not prevent it from being shared thousands [...]
Betway closes sponsorship deals with football league teams
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Lidia Marín
, 19 August 2020
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While waiting for the Royal Decree on commercial communications to be approved once it has received the green light from the European Commission, which could mean the prohibition of sports betting advertising on the kits of professional teams, Betway has been closing agreements [...]
New plan against betting fraud
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Lidia Marín
, 10 August 2020
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One year after the creation of the CONFAD, the DGOJ launches a two-year national plan to combat fraud in sports betting. After such high-profile cases as the Oikos plot, the DGOJ intends with legal instruments like this to protect the integrity of sport and address a [...]
Advertising shines again in football
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Lidia Marín
, 1 July 2020
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Once the green light has been given for the resumption of the Santander League, we were wondering if we were going to be able to see the usual advertising of the bookmakers on the shirts of the First Division football teams. Now that the first days have been completed we have [...]
Sports betting fraud down in 2019
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Lidia Marín
, 15 June 2020
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In its latest annual report, the non-profit International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) reveals that sports betting fraud experienced a 31% decrease in 2019 compared to the previous year. What is the industry doing to stop a phenomenon that threatens its interests and [...]