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发帖数: 26 | 1 In the light of recent events, it is our prerogative (being the first
organized supporters group in Europe) to tackle the source of misbehaving of
Croatian fans, during the last match of the European Championship. Do not
be mistaken, they are CROATIAN FANS, maybe more so than those who accuse
them today. Croatian fans live their emotions and consider the national team
to be sacred, but are at the same time ready to hurt their teams’ chances
for progress in search of international help. Clutching your fist at your
own kin is the hardest thing to do, but when all other options are depleted,
it is the only way to seek justice. This raises the question of how
desperate the fans must be, when they are willing to risk high fines and
prison time, just to send a message?
Even though the supporters group “Torcida” was not in any way related to
this emotional outburst, we couldn’t in all truth say it was not expected.
For the past five years we have been warning all government and football
officials, about the massive dissatisfaction and miss agreement with where
our national football is heading. Our Football Federation is crippled with
affairs, infested with criminals and run by marionettes and dirty money.
Zdravko Mamic , who is the current executive director of our Football
federation, is at the moment pending criminal charges for misuse of position
and authority, bribery and embezzling , of over 15.1 million Euros. This
all happened while he was Executive Director of GNK Dinamo, a position he
kept up until the court gave him a banning order to conduct any executive
work, while the trial and investigation are taking place. He was charged for
embezzling money in the following way: at the time of a players transfer,
he would sign an annex to the professional contract in which the player
would have the right to 50% of the total amount of future transfer fees,
even though in reality the player did not have any claim to that money. The
club would then pay that money to the player, and the player would return
the money in cash to Zdravko Mamic or other members of his family. Also, his
brother who is the current manager of GNK Dinamo was charged for taking
over 3.1 million Euros in loans from GNK Dinamo in a two year span. Charges
indicate that he had returned those loans by taking 50% of players transfer
fees and returning the money to GNK Dinamo, while keeping the rest for
himself. Police departments dealing with organized crime; found the
testimony of Liverpool FC defender Dejan Lovren to be quite interesting. As
part of the aforementioned scheme, GNK Dinamo had made a payment of 3.4
million Euros to Dejan Lovren, as a part of his fees for the transfer to
Liverpool FC. According to the investigation, what actually happened was
that Dejan Lovren kept only 200,000 Euros for himself, while the rest of the
money he gave to Zdravko Mamic or some of his family members in cash. On a
further note, Zdravko Mamic is also pending criminal charges for tax evasion
of up to 1.6 mil Euros, and at the same time is charged for bribing a tax
officer who did not charge any income or other local taxes to Dinamo Zagreb.
Zdravko Mamic has risen to power and accumulated capital during an after war
period, a time in which crony capitalism and corruption were spread around
Croatia. During those years he became friends or had funded numerous
important people in Croatia. He is a close friend and an associate of Milan
Bandic, the controversial major of Zagreb. He is also a close friend with
the Head of County Court of Zagreb Ivan Turudic and has also funded the
election campaign of the ruling political party in Croatia. The current
President of Republic of Croatia, also had her presidential campaign funded
by Zdravko Mamic. He even organized a private birthday party for her, which
was placed in his villa, and attended by her and a number of other Croatian
politicians. Whenever Zdravko Mamic gets indicted for something, he calls in
a favor and ends up in the company of high-ranking Government officials
like the current First Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko. Just
recently, briefly after Mamic was released from custody, they have been
witnessed while having a private meeting. After those meetings, somehow all
his indictments tend to end up in the “back draw” of the judicial system.
Even the Director of the Special Intelligence Agency was relieved of duty,
shortly after the President of Croatia found out that Zdravko Mamic was
under surveillance in a pending investigation.
Although GNK Dinamo are the current Croatian football league champions,
their title was celebrated by less than 500 people on the stands. While he
was executive director of FC Dinamo, he first placed his brother to be the
sports director and soon after the manager of the club. All of this obvious
corruption and nepotism drove away all the Dinamo supporters who were not
satisfied with the way this publicly owned club is governed. When the
manager of the Croatian national team was not obedient to him, Zdravko Mamic
fired him and installed two of his “puppets”, Davor Suker as the Football
Federation president, Ante Cacic, (who was at the time coach of GNK Dinamo
B team called FC Lokomotiva), while at the same time naming himself as the
executive director
Currently, a total of 16 out of 23 national team player, allegedly have
usurious contracts with Zdravko Mamic, which means that he gets a cut of all
earnings, salaries, bonuses and transfer fees they make.
It is estimated that he gets 40.000 Euros overall from the players for every
win and 20.000 Euros for every draw on EURO 2016 in France, all made as
cash payments. The latest example is the world’s best midfielder Luka
Modric. In the pending lawsuit against Mamic, Luka Modric testified in front
of police investigators that according to the terms of his civil contract,
he is obliged to make cash payments (which range from 25-30% of his total
earnings) to Zdravko Mamic. Usually this is hidden from the public eye, but
some players decided to resist. A good example is the former Arsenal FC
striker Eduardo Da Silva. He was not willing to make cash payments to
Zdravko Mamic anymore and took the whole thing to court. According to his
usurious contract, he had to pay 40% of his total earnings. Due to the fact
that Zdravko Mamic had through the football federation paid numerous fees
for “financial consultation” to at least two County Court judges (Jasna
Smiljancic and Ivica Veselic), from the very beginning it was obvious that
Eduardo did not stand a chance in Croatian courts.
Zdravko Mamic still rules the Croatian Football Federation and gets to pick
a coach as well as all the players. Remember Alen Halilovic, the 20 year old
FC Barcelona “wunderkind”, who had a great year playing for Real Sporting
de Gijon. He is not a part of the squad on EURO 2016, because he ended his
relationship with Zdravko Mamic on bad terms and allegedly does not give him
a cut of the earnings. Another good example is the aforementioned 26 year
old Liverpool FC defender Dejan Lovren. A player who was in the starting
line-up at this years’ UEFA Europa League final against FC Sevilla, was
also not invited to EURO 2016 team, because he refused “to be obedient”
and spoke out in public. It is clear to everybody in Croatia that players in
rotation are called solely from GNK Dinamo for the purpose of raising their
price on the international market. Remember Sammir who played in starting
lineup against Cameroon in World Cup in Brazil 2014?He was later sold to
Getafe FC and never called to the national team again. People in Croatia
grow weary of these choices and feel we could play a much more important
role in international football, only if the team selection was based on
quality and not Zdravko Mamic’s private interests.
Croatian fans tried every democratic way to enforce some order in Croatian
Football Federation. Even the Croatian parliament, which was pressured by
the general public and football fans, passed a law called Sports’ Act ,
which was supposed to make funding and finances of all sport clubs in
Croatia transparent. Croatian Football Federation and GNK Dinamo (both ruled
by Zdravko Mamic) issued a statement that the government law does not apply
to them and they shall not abide. Predrag ustar, the current Minister
of Sport (under whose authority this law should be enforced) does nothing,
because he is a member of the Party funded by Zdravko Mamic. The president
of the Republic of Croatia was also member of that same Party.
Concerning Davor Suker, the current President of our Football Federation, we
are sad to say that the days of his glory are far behind him. A player, who
was once seen as a national hero, now is nothing more than a criminal
offender (convicted of stealing 25.000 Euros worth of Greek golden coins
from an airplane) and a puppet of Mamic, who is looking for an easy living
at the expense of our Football Federation.
It is sad to have the feeling that your national team is stolen from you,
and that it is now in the hands of criminals who could not care less about
our homeland as far as their wallets are full. This and many other reasons
is why we are afraid that ignoring the symptoms created a state that is
about to inflame the whole system, which will end in catharsis. Croatian
Football Federation is in need of redemption to its fans, and the only
solution is that all executives resign their positions and we start all over.
Help our fans kick criminals out of football and take back the national team! | a*****n
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: In the light of recent events, it is our prerogative (being the first
: organized supporters group in Europe) to tackle the source of misbehaving of
: Croatian fans, during the last match of the European Championship. Do not
: be mistaken, they are CROATIAN FANS, maybe more so than those who accuse
: them today. Croatian fans live their emotions and consider the national team
: to be sacred, but are at the same time ready to hurt their teams’ chances
: for progress in search of international help. Clutching your fist at your
: own kin is the hardest thing to do, but when all other options are depleted,
: it is the only way to seek justice. This raises the question of how
: desperate the fans must be, when they are willing to risk high fines and
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