Jenni Hermoso will once again wear the shirt of the Spanish soccer team. The coach Montse Tomé has included the Madrid forward of the Mexican Pachuca in the list of those called up for the matches against Italy and Switzerland in the Nations League, to which the World champions Salma Paralluelo, Esther González and Ivana Andrés also return after overcoming the injuries that left them out of the controversial September summons.

Hermoso was left out of the matches against Sweden and Switzerland because the coach admitted having wanted to “protect” her.. This reason cost Tomé criticism because his protection was linked to everything that happened in the World Cup final in Australia with the kiss of the former president of the Federation Luis Rubiales.. Those words generated discomfort in the soccer player, who publicly asked herself on networks what they had to protect her from, and in her teammates, who refused to be summoned but finally negotiated an agreement in Oliva with the RFEF, with the mediation of the CSD, which guaranteed changes.

Tomé explained himself again and wanted to clarify it after having spoken with Jenni and that he will be at the concentration on Monday. “Then we understood that, for sporting reasons, it was the best, because the focus was on her. In addition, he had played two games, a few minutes. There was a human part in that decision, but all my decisions are sporting. Protecting her was a sporting decision. Now I feel better, he has played more, he has scored three goals in four games. “It was the moment,” she said after acknowledging that both she and her coaching staff spoke with Jenni to have her be in the two games that will be played in Salerno and Zurich on Friday, October 27 and Tuesday, October 31.

The focus was also on Mapi León and Patri Guijarro, who were called in the first summons but chose to leave the concentration. Tomé has not included them on the list again. “We follow them and value them. They were summoned because of their abilities, but they told me what they felt and I told them what I thought.. Steps have been taken in the RFEF, but I have to call on players who want to be there and who are convinced,” he said..

Tomé's start on the bench was in a context of mistrust that the coach believes has been overcome. “I have always had confidence in myself, in my coaching staff. I have spent five years with the majority in another role, doing my job professionally, but it was not me who decided. The relationship with the players was good, none of them will say anything bad to you. They are very professional. This is something that has overwhelmed us all, we are trying to solve it, but I have not felt a lack of confidence. We have talked about what we have had to talk about,” said the coach, who did not want to comment on the signing of Jorge Vilda for Morocco.

Another focus of controversy in the last few hours has been the support received from the men's team, which Aitana Bonmatí did not expect, and the words of Rodri, captain, about the convenience of meeting with the captains who, next Monday, Tomé will make known. “I find the idea very interesting, because I think we can benefit a lot from each other,” he said.

At the moment, what he wants most is to be able to talk only about football, about his team, about a rival like Switzerland that was beaten in Córdoba but needs to react and about another like Italy that stood up to Sweden and that, he warns, will not be easy.

Called:

– Goalkeepers: Misa Rodríguez (Real Madrid), Enith Salón (Valencia) and Cata Coll (Barcelona)

– Defenders: Ona Batlle, Irene Paredes (Barcelona), Olga Carmona, Ivana Andrés, Oihane Hernández (Real Madrid), Laia Aleixandri (Manchester City/ING) and María Méndez (Levante)

– Midfielders: Tere Abelleira, Maite Oroz (Real Madrid), Alexia Putellas, Aitana Bonmatí, Jenni Hermoso (Pachuca/MEX) and Anna Torrodá (Valencia).

– Forwards: Athenea del Castillo (Real Madrid), Mariona Caldentey, Salma Paralluelo (Barcelona), Amaiur Sarriegi (Real Sociedad), Inma Gabarro (Sevilla), Lucía García (Manchester United/ING) and Esther González (Gotham/USA).

The first alarms went off in March 2022. Bogdan V., a 39-year-old Romanian bettor residing in Cabanillas del Campo, province of Guadalajara, had aroused suspicion in the internal control services of Codere, one of the large betting houses.

The player had played more than 2.9 million euros in just two years. But he always used to follow the same pattern, betting on basketball games and greyhound and horse races.. However, suddenly his activity had skyrocketed into an unusual discipline: table tennis.. In two years his interest in this sport had been residual. Suddenly, in just one month, he allocated more than 13,500 euros to this discipline, always with combined bets and doubling his average of previous personal bets.

The legal services of the betting house crossed data with the providers of sporting events, investigated the histories and detected signs of fraud, suspecting that there could be a plot to fix ping-pong matches.. Suspicions were reinforced with a bet in one of these games held in Brazil, an apparently minor event, but which hid a suspicious back room.

Gap in the system

For this reason, last year the lawyers of the betting house put it in the hands of the National Court, denouncing “reasonable evidence” that indicated that the player under investigation knew about the fixing of the matches on which he bet, as stated in the document. sent to court reporting the case.

The door was opened to an investigation that a year later, under the name of Operation Mursal, would emerge with the arrest of a group of people involved in a cartel organized for the alleged massive rigging of sports bets.. With tentacles in the table tennis circuit, in which one of the detainees had been a professional player, but with the ability to scheme in the highest international competitions, including the World Cup in Qatar or the UEFA Nations League.

This is clear from the arrest warrant of one of the main defendants and alleged ringleaders, Yavor A., resident in Malaga and detained in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to Spain last September.. The incarceration order issued by the Court of Instruction number 3 of the Provincial Court, to which EL MUNDO has had access, describes how the organization took advantage of a gap in the telecommunications system to gain an advantage and always bet on the winning horse.. They knew the result thanks to their infiltration and anticipation tactics by hacking the signal, thus multiplying the profits.

Alleged criminal “cartel”

The reconstruction of the events investigated by the National Police points to the existence of “two criminal organizations that maintain their independence, but associate with each other”, sharing accounts and information and forming an alleged criminal “cartel”.. An alliance designed “to strengthen its position in a world as complex as that of criminal organizations dedicated to match-fixing,” maintains the order issued by Judge María Tardón.

To concoct this alleged scam on the betting houses, they arranged agreements with athletes (professional table tennis players) and, in parallel, in other sports they took advantage of the delay between the sporting event on which they were betting and the broadcast signal with the one that the gaming operators have, with which the bets of the rest of the online players are articulated. This allowed them to “bet on variables that they were certain had just occurred.”. They knew before anyone else what was happening and moved the money just before.

The investigation supervised by the National Court indicates that the network managed to access the signal in real time in stadiums thanks to the use of “large satellite dishes” and “coding obtained from a Telegram group called 'Hack Sat Feed'”. They took advantage of this technique “in international events, such as Chinese League soccer matches or soccer matches of national teams in the Europa Nations League, a tournament organized by UEFA.”

four league games

In addition to this ploy, the organization exploited these delays by employing narrators sent to the stages where the matches on which they bet were taking place.. “The purpose,” explains the judge, “was to defraud the gambling operators by placing safe bets on circumstances that the bettors know had just happened thanks to the speech of a prominent person in the football stadium.” .

Although it has not been possible to identify all the narrators, it is noted that they acted in “various soccer matches played in the Qatar Soccer World Cup”, with cross calls between Spain and Romania.. And that this tactic of the announcers was also used in at least four matches of the Spanish League: narrators infiltrated the stadiums of Celta, Betis, Villarreal and Sevilla, a circumstance absolutely unrelated to the clubs.. The narrators were compensated with 250 euros paid through Bizum. The same technique was used in a Copa del Rey match between La Núcia and Valencia in January of this year.

The organization allegedly used the identity of people who transferred their data to act as money “mules” and thus hide the identity of the leaders of the network.. The investigation also indicates that the cartel managed to corrupt several people employed in the betting houses themselves and in the intermediary companies for the digital flow of money (the so-called payment gateways), although only one has been identified, a woman who in One year, between September 2021 and September 2022, he received 46,957 euros from one of the main defendants.

Also in the repechage

Using this technique, the organization achieved significant profits in international matches. Thus, the investigation has documented how in a single play-off match for the Qatar World Cup they managed to win 13,000 euros thanks to the gap between the signal and reality. Peru and Australia faced each other in June 2022 to achieve one of the highly disputed places in the world's highest soccer competition.

In that match the Australians won a very tight penalty shootout against the Peruvians, who also started the shootout winning, which made them betting favorites. Ultimately, Australia won 5-4 in a long exchange of shots. The police investigation has traced the account where the money went, which was then distributed between the two leaders of the two branches investigated.

Controversy grows around Karim Benzema (Lyon, 35 years old) after the French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, accused him on Tuesday on a television set of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that some countries consider a group terrorist, including Saudi Arabia, where the footballer lives. In France it is not included in the list.

Senator Valérie Boyer, of the conservative party of The Republicans, requested this Wednesday in a statement spread on social networks that, if the minister's statements are confirmed, the Ballon d'Or that he won in 2022 and also his French nationality be withdrawn.

“If these statements are true, we must consider sanctions against Karim Benzema. A symbolic one, like taking away the Ballon d'Or. Afterwards, we should withdraw his nationality. “We cannot accept that an internationally known French binational could fail in honor and thus betray our country.”

In reality, Darmanin did not provide evidence of his claims: “Mr. Benzema has a notorious link, we all know, with the Muslim Brotherhood,” the minister limited himself to saying in an interview with the conservative network Cnews.

The minister was responding to a question about the publication of a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter) in which the former Real Madrid footballer gave his support to the population of Gaza. He asked to pray “for its inhabitants, victims once again of unjust bombings”. In this conflict, France is aligned with Israel, since the most important Jewish community in Europe lives in its territory.. Also 10% Muslims.

This controversy occurs at a time when France is on maximum alert for a terrorist attack, after the Islamist attack last Friday in an institute in which a teacher was stabbed to death.. The minister's environment has been explained to several French media and he has justified his statements in “the slow drift” of the footballer (born in France but of Algerian origin) “towards a hard, rigorous Islam, characterized by an ideology of the Brotherhood that consists in disseminating Islamic norms in different spaces of society, especially in sports.

“When you have the audience and influence that Benzema has, this ambiguity and running the risk of damaging national unity is a form of separatism,” said the senator.

Benzema, the first Frenchman to win the Ballon d'Or after Zinedine Zidane and winner of five Champions Leagues with Real Madrid, has just signed for AI Ittihad, a team from Saudi Arabia. This country does consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. Also Egypt and some countries that do not include France.

Muslim state

This Islamist organization was born in Egypt and its objectives are the creation of a Muslim state and the non-violent fight against Western civilization.. The Minister of the Interior considers that this brotherhood “creates an atmosphere of jihadism.”

Interior criticizes Benzema for his “proselytism on the networks regarding Muslim worship, such as fasting or prayer,” the minister's entourage has pointed out to Le Parisien.. On the footballer's Instagram account there are mainly photos with the Real Madrid shirt. A few days ago he published one in which he appeared in typical Saudi clothing and celebrated “Saudi Arabia Day”. In statements to Le Parisien, an advisor to the footballer has declared that “it is false, Karim Benzema has never had the slightest relationship with that organization.”

Benzema's history with France is one of disagreements: he was already criticized for not singing the Marseillaise when he played for the France team. “La Marseillaise urges war and I don't like that,” he justified to Vanity Fair. He also did not play in the Qatar World Cup and even refused to be in the box in the final.

The first alarms went off in March 2022. Bogdan V., a 39-year-old Romanian bettor residing in Cabanillas del Campo, province of Guadalajara, had aroused suspicion in the internal control services of Codere, one of the large betting houses.

The player had played more than 2.9 million euros in just two years. But he always used to follow the same pattern, betting on basketball games and greyhound and horse races.. However, suddenly his activity had skyrocketed into an unusual discipline: table tennis.. In two years his interest in this sport had been residual. Suddenly, in just one month, he allocated more than 13,500 euros to this discipline, always with combined bets and doubling his average of previous personal bets.

The legal services of the betting house crossed data with the providers of sporting events, investigated the histories and detected signs of fraud, suspecting that there could be a plot to fix ping-pong matches.. Suspicions were reinforced with a bet in one of these games held in Brazil, an apparently minor event, but which hid a suspicious back room.

Gap in the system

For this reason, last year the lawyers of the betting house put it in the hands of the National Court, denouncing “reasonable evidence” that indicated that the player under investigation knew about the fixing of the matches on which he bet, as stated in the document. sent to court reporting the case.

The door was opened to an investigation that a year later, under the name of Operation Mursal, would emerge with the arrest of a group of people involved in a cartel organized for the alleged massive rigging of sports bets.. With tentacles in the table tennis circuit, in which one of the detainees had been a professional player, but with the ability to scheme in the highest international competitions, including the World Cup in Qatar or the UEFA Nations League.

This is clear from the arrest warrant of one of the main defendants and alleged ringleaders, Yavor A., resident in Malaga and detained in the United Arab Emirates and extradited to Spain last September.. The incarceration order issued by the Court of Instruction number 3 of the Provincial Court, to which EL MUNDO has had access, describes how the organization took advantage of a gap in the telecommunications system to gain an advantage and always bet on the winning horse.. They knew the result thanks to their infiltration and anticipation tactics by hacking the signal, thus multiplying the profits.

Alleged criminal “cartel”

The reconstruction of the events investigated by the National Police points to the existence of “two criminal organizations that maintain their independence, but associate with each other”, sharing accounts and information and forming an alleged criminal “cartel”.. An alliance designed “to strengthen its position in a world as complex as that of criminal organizations dedicated to match-fixing,” maintains the order issued by Judge María Tardón.

To concoct this alleged scam on the betting houses, they arranged agreements with athletes (professional table tennis players) and, in parallel, in other sports they took advantage of the delay between the sporting event on which they were betting and the broadcast signal with the one that the gaming operators have, with which the bets of the rest of the online players are articulated. This allowed them to “bet on variables that they were certain had just occurred.”. They knew before anyone else what was happening and moved the money just before.

The investigation supervised by the National Court indicates that the network managed to access the signal in real time in stadiums thanks to the use of “large satellite dishes” and “coding obtained from a Telegram group called 'Hack Sat Feed'”. They took advantage of this technique “in international events, such as Chinese League soccer matches or soccer matches of national teams in the Europa Nations League, a tournament organized by UEFA.”

four league games

In addition to this ploy, the organization exploited these delays by employing narrators sent to the stages where the matches on which they bet were taking place.. “The purpose,” explains the judge, “was to defraud the gambling operators by placing safe bets on circumstances that the bettors know had just happened thanks to the speech of a prominent person in the football stadium.” .

Although it has not been possible to identify all the narrators, it is noted that they acted in “various soccer matches played in the World Cup in Qatar”, with calls crossed between Spain and Romania.. And that this tactic of the announcers was also used in at least four matches of the Spanish League: narrators infiltrated the stadiums of Celta, Betis, Villarreal and Sevilla, a circumstance absolutely unrelated to the clubs.. The narrators were compensated with 250 euros paid through Bizum. The same technique was used in a Copa del Rey match between La Núcia and Valencia in January of this year.

The organization allegedly used the identity of people who transferred their data to act as money “mules” and thus hide the identity of the leaders of the network.. The investigation also indicates that the cartel managed to corrupt several people employed in the betting houses themselves and in the intermediary companies for the digital flow of money (the so-called payment gateways), although only one has been identified, a woman who in One year, between September 2021 and September 2022, he received 46,957 euros from one of the main defendants.

Also in the repechage

Using this technique, the organization achieved significant profits in international matches. Thus, the investigation has documented how in a single play-off match for the Qatar World Cup they managed to win 13,000 euros thanks to the gap between the signal and reality. Peru and Australia faced each other in June 2022 to achieve one of the highly disputed places in the world's highest soccer competition.

In that match the Australians won a very tight penalty shootout against the Peruvians, who also started the shootout winning, which made them betting favorites. Ultimately, Australia won 5-4 in a long exchange of shots. The police investigation has traced the account where the money went, which was then distributed between the two leaders of the two branches investigated.

Last season there were 750,000 violent conversations related to Spanish football out of 6,500,000 analyzed. That is, 11.5% of the tweets, posts, reels and other publications were to insult or generate hatred. The average index of this emotion (number from 1 to 10) posted on the networks each day of LaLiga was 7.5, according to the meter established by the competition.

Well, May 25, 2023, matchday 35 of LaLiga, Valencia-Real Madrid match. Vinicius stands before the Mestalla audience and points out a fan who had called him a “monkey” and who had made monkey gestures at the merengue player.. It was the tip of the iceberg. The tsunami is unleashed on the networks. Hate multiplied compared to a normal day and the index rose to 9.33. LaLiga understood that it had to do something and so did many companies.

“The Vinicius case caused many companies to come to us with ideas to try to reduce that,” reveals Óscar Mayo executive general director of LaLiga. Finally, in the competition they decided on the partnership between Séntisis Intelligence and GroupM and together they created Mood (Monitor for the Observation of Hate in Sports).

Mood is an initiative to measure and combat violent speech on social networks during sports competitions, although Ícaro Moyano, GroupM's Strategy Director, has a more precise and, perhaps, more annoying definition that he shares with El Mundo: “It is a mirror of what we are and it's uncomfortable”. Indeed, it is. Although Fátima Gómez Sota, professor and researcher of sociology at the European University of Valencia (UEV), goes further: “Social networks allow anonymity and immediacy and are the breeding ground for reproducing violent and xenophobic ideologies.. Hence the importance of identifying who broadcasts this content and how it can be avoided and/or controlled.”

This tool analyzes the language expressed in networks using a semantic engine with more than 50,000 linguistic rules and Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Analyzes more than half a million conversations in real time and classifies them into more than 50 dimensions of violence. Thanks to it, messages can be identified and a study of the discourse on social networks is carried out based on various criteria such as the emotions of the users, the different themes within hate speech (racism, harassment or xenophobia), the volume of mentions. registered and their virality.

Display of the Mood index by days.

This information is reflected in the Mood index of the day, which is a figure from 1 to 10 that summarizes all this information.. This is shared through LaLiga's social networks as well as the mentions and the number of users. Last season more than 900,000 different people commented on competition content. “It will also go with a certain focus each week on what is most important,” explains Moyano.

The derby

On matchday 6, for example, the focus was very clear: The Madrid derby, the match that began the terrible wave of racism against Vinicius last season. Well, from one year to the next, hate messages have been reduced by 15% and insults among fans by 50%.. “Most violent behavior is related to certain groups (generally the Ultras) and matches where symbolically “enemy” teams face each other.. However, the vast majority of fans do not have these behaviors,” reveals Gomez Sota.

All Mood information will be in a dynamic dashboard with data segregated and accumulated by matchday, team, match, region, players or hobbies, among others.. “It is one more step in our fight to end racism, since we need to know exactly what is being said in order to take action and help stop hate inside and outside of football,” explains Mayo.

Former soccer player who suffered racism ÁNGEL NAVARRETE EL MUNDO

Mood is part of LaLiga VS Racism, as one more step in the detection and eradication of violent acts in football and society. “In Spain we have already forgotten about violence when going to soccer fields,” says Óscar Mayo and explains that one of the purposes of Mood is “for it to also disappear from social networks.”

One of the purposes of LaLiga is to turn football into “a transforming force in society” to talk about rights, equality and other principles that are not always respected in the anonymity of the networks.. “Education, regulation and detection” are the keys for the UEV professor to end this type of behavior on networks not only with respect to football but in general.

The tenth consecutive victory, third in the Euroleague, was outlined by the brush of Facu Campazzo and was executed with the hammer of Vincent Poirier. In full effervescence, almost touched by fairies, Real Madrid sent Zalgiris to the canvas thanks also to the dull work of Gabriel Deck, who never cared about subtleties. However, beyond any individual merit, Chus Mateo's team once again showed a high level in all areas. Unapproachable for the Lithuanian champion, who arrived undefeated after their victories in Bologna and against Red Star in Kaunas. [Narrative and statistics (93-79)]

Campazzo (18 points, nine assists), Poirier (18 points, seven rebounds) and Deck (19 points) were the vanguard of a fun and attractive team, whose fantastic moment will be examined this Thursday by Nikola Mirotic's Olimpia Milano. Next week it will be Barça, capable of taking two places like Piraeus and Belgrade, who will parade through the WiZink. Ettore Messina and Roger Grimau will have to invent something to thwart this Madrid's streak.

Against Zalgiris, four triples were enough in two and a half minutes to turn the score from 13-14 to 25-16. Three of them, on the wrist of Campazzo, to whom they gave a solemn ovation when he gave way to Sergio Rodríguez. In nine minutes, Facu had already accumulated 14 points and two assists, a good example of his exceptional moment of form. In any case, this Madrid not only stands out in navigation, but also overwhelms with its scoring success.

Exceptional success

After the 15th minute, Chus Mateo's second unit, led by Rudy Fernández, already boasted a comfortable advantage (43-30). And the captain had come out to keep Edgaras Ulanovas' fine left foot at bay.. That the former Fenerbahçe forward no longer passed the blocks so easily, the credit went to the Mallorcan. It was more difficult to find a consistent explanation for White's 8/12 in triples. Or that action by Poirier, walking the track from end to end, avoiding rivals, before they stopped him in an unsportsmanlike manner.

Madrid flowed in every corner of the court, almost oblivious to Zalgiris' opposition or the vicissitudes of the scoreboard.. Its varied, baroque offensive resources unleashed the enthusiasm of WiZink. People found no cause for alarm even against Naz Mitrou-Long, a point guard with an agile waist and an even lighter head.. After dribbling through the zone twice and scoring a bizarre baby hook against Sergio Llull, after seven almost consecutive points, Kazis Maksvytis scolded the point guard for his lack of collective commitment.

Zalgiris would still have the option to show its true entity. He did it after the break, thanks to a radical defensive change, causing four turnovers in five minutes, where the locals only scored with two free throws from Edy Tavares. With the Cape Verdean already on the bench, due to two consecutive personnel in attack, a 2+1 by Rolands Smits would place a threatening 55-52.

Manek's doll

Madrid couldn't even look at the rim, which closed the third quarter with just 10 field goals.. However, even when traveling through a barren wasteland, he knows how to find alternatives.. For example, with Deck in the low post. Seven points from the Argentine neutralized Brady Manek's eight consecutive points, to return stability before the last quarter (72-62).

From then on it was not even necessary to risk Tavares or resort to Campazzo's spell, because his substitutes were already enough. If Llull had stunned the staff with two signature baskets, the alley-hoop between Poirier and Chacho, finished by the Frenchman with his left foot, was of another dimension. Closing a Euroleague night with 26 assists seems right now only within the reach of a select few. And they dress in white.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has accused Karim Benzema of being linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamic organization considered terrorist in some countries, not in France.

“Mr. Karim Benzema has notorious links with the Muslim Brotherhood,” said the Interior Minister on CNews.

These statements come after the support that the former Real Madrid footballer showed to the inhabitants of Gaza.

“All our prayers for the inhabitants of Gaza who are once again victims of these unjust bombings that spare neither women nor children,” the 35-year-old striker wrote on X (ex Twitter).

The Muslim Brotherhood, recognized as a terrorist organization in many countries, is one of the most influential groups in the Arab world.. The ideology of the Brotherhood, established by Al Banna and the thinker Sayed Qutb, was born as resistance to British colonialism and was consolidated as an alternative to the materialist and individualistic culture of the West.. Maximum representatives of political Islam, their ultimate goal is to extend the Islamic laws and principles contained in the Quran and the Sunna (sayings and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad) to all areas of life – personal, social, political, economic and cultural. gradually and peacefully.

The interpretation of some of those principles has changed over the years. For example, Al Banna criticized a multiparty system that his heirs approve. Its current leaders, now behind bars, also insisted that they rejected the establishment of an Iranian-style Islamic regime and advocated a vague civil state based on Islamic foundations.. In the economic field, they are defenders of liberalism with some strategic sectors protected and controlled by the State.. In fact, the hard core of the Brotherhood is made up of businessmen who allocated part of their profits to finance the group's work.