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Romanian football bears the stamp of a sporting movement pilloried by a generation or more of the most egregiously infectious corruption. The passage of time has sugared the pill a little ? the match-fixing practices that spawned semi-legal cartels in the chaos that followed the collapse of communism have eased their vice-like grip on competition in the domestic Liga 1, and the admissions made by high-ranking personnel as far up the chain as former Professional Football League president Dumitru Dragomir in 2004 regarding the systemic nature of malpractice marked a demi-baptism for a new era in the Romanian game, tinged as it was with pathos over a wretched past. But genuine reforms have never materialised, in spite of the talk, and this week the PFL welcomes into office a new president whose reputation for underhand practice rivals anything seen in the Blat match-rigging circles of the 90s, just months after the owner of league heavyweights Steaua Bucharest began a three-year jail term for defrauding the state. The hands in which the future of Romanian football rests are used to dealing out of sight, and with suspicions rankling throughout the ranks of high office the fear now is for a football […]
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