Barça Legends 2-3 Real Madrid Leyendas: Beaten in Israel
Despite taking a first half lead through Ronaldinho, Albert Ferrer's side end up losing a wonderfully contested game of veterans football
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The Barça Legends have lost the Clásico in Israel against the Real Madrid Leyendas. Despite going ahead thanks to a Ronaldinho penalty, the all-whites came out strong in the second half and scored through Munitis, Alfonso and De La Red, despite Jofre adding a second for the blaugrana.
Barça started the game with Angoy, Dehú, Tortolero, Juan Carlos, Arpón, Goikoetxea, Mendieta, Deco, Ronaldinho, Rivaldo and Saviola and dominated early on, with Ronaldinho giving us copious reminders of why he was regarded as the greatest footballer of his era.
With the likes of Roberto Carlos and Luis Figo lining up for the opposition, Ronaldinho had already hit the post before converting a penalty after a foul on Saviola. The spot kick itself had been ordered by Sapir Berman, who made history last year by becoming the first transgender referee of a top flight game in Israel.
We had seen little of the Madrid veterans until now, but there was a whole new look to the all-whites after the restart, and Munitis and Alfonso Pérez very quickly scored twice.
Substitute Jofre Mateu levelled following a fine solo run, with Guzmán, De Boer, Okunowo, Amor and Coco also joining the fray. But it would be Madrid’s day in the end when Rubén De La Red scored what would prove to be the winning goal.
The result might have been wrong, but everything else was wonderful on a night where the local fans got to enjoy a tremendous spectacle ... and some of the finest players of yesteryear showed that they still have it in them!
2-3: Real Madrid claim spoils in legends' El Clásico in Tel Aviv
NEWS | 20/07/2021
Strikes from de Munitis, Alfonso and De la Red handed the Whites victory over Barcelona at Bloomfield Stadium.
The Real Madrid Legends got the better of Barcelona in the sides' El Clásico clash at Tel Aviv's Bloomfield Stadium. The teams served up an entertaining contest that featured five goals and some fine football. Ronaldinho converted from the spot to put the Catalans ahead, before strikes from Munitis and Alfonso in the space of two second-half minutes turned the game on its head. Jofre Mateu later restored parity, before De la Red fired home a sublime effort to secure victory.
The first half proved to be an even affair with chances at both ends. Barcelona came close on 20', when Ronaldinho's shot cannoned off the crossbar. However, the Brazilian would go one better seven minutes later when he slotted home a penalty following a challenge by Núñez on Saviola. The reaction from the madridistas was instant and they were denied by two stellar saves from Angoy to keep out long-range efforts from Roberto Carlos and De la Red with 31' and 35' on the clock.
FIGHTBACK IN FINE SECOND-HALF SHOWING.
The Real Madrid Legends came out after the break intent on turning the scoreline around and did so just two minutes after the restart, with de Munitis's introduction proving to be key. The Cantabrian levelled matters on 42' after he pounced on Amavisca's shot from the edge of the area that ricocheted off Guzmán, before conjuring up an exquisite piece of skill to skip around the goalkeeper and tap home into the unguarded net. Two minutes later, de Munitis picked up the ball wide on the right and swung in an inch-perfect cross that Alfonso got on the end of to put Madrid in the ascendancy.
The tempo of the contest subsequently dropped and Barcelona drew themselves level in the 60th minute following a fine solo run from Jofre Mateu, before Madrid hit the winner 10 minutes later. The decisive goal was a thing of beauty from De la Red as the madridista skipped past Goikoetxea, before tucking the ball just inside the post from the edge of the area.
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Barça Legends: Angoy, Juan Carlos, Dehu, Tortolero, Goikoetxea, Deco, Mendieta, Arpón, Rivaldo, Saviola, Ronaldinho. Guzmán, Amor, Ronald de Boer, Coco, Jofre Mateu and Okunowo also featured.
Real Madrid Legends: Codina, Núñez, Iván Campo, Fernando Sanz, Roberto Carlos, Milla, Rivera, Figo, Amavisca, De la Red y Alfonso. Velasco, Víctor, Álex and Munitis also featured.
naptu2: I hope the anti-spam bot doesn't ban me because of the link.
I remember when BCCI collapsed c1991. The CBN took action to protect its Nigerian subsidiary. Some people alleged that it took action because the Sultan, Ibrahim Dasuki had a lot of shares in the bank.
These screenshots are taken from this book.
The Organized Criminal Activities of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International: Essays and DocumentationIn memoriam David Whitby
naptu2: Independent Television News (UK) video from 1985.
Anti-corruption war in Nigeria leads to collapse of British bank.
Basically, corrupt British/Indian businessman, Rajendra Sethia, made a fortune from bribing Nigerian transport minister, Umaru Dikko, to get import licenses which gave him the right to import esenco into Nigeria at subsidised prices (subsidised by the Nigerian Government). Most of the time no esenco was actually imported. It was simply a scam to defraud the government of subsidy money.
Rajendra Sethia often borrowed money from Johnson Mattheys Bank in order to finance these deals.
Then there was a coup in Nigeria and a war against corruption. Johnson Mattheys, like most Nigerians, knew in advance that there would be a coup, but they felt that it would be good for business (business as usual).
In actual fact, the amount of money that Johnson Mattheys lent to Sethia was not enough to make the bank go under, but they felt that he was a winner, so they kept throwing money at him, even after the problems started. They felt that he only needed more money to fix the problems.
Sethia was declared wanted in the UK for forgery. He had forged a bill of laden (essentially declaring that the same goods were going to two different places). He fled to Spain and was eventually arrested in India for being in possession of a false passport.
He told ITN News from prison, that he never bribed Umaru Dikko, but he did make a contribution of $30 to $40 million to the 1983 Nigerian elections.
Olaolufred: [b]Structural Adjustment Lending, which is closely integrated with the programs of the IMF, officially became one of the programs of the World Bank in 1980. According to the Bank's Annual Repon for 1981: In fiscal 1980, the Executive Directors approved the initiation of Structural Adjustment Lending-that is, lending designed to suppon major changes in policies and institutions of developing countries that would reduce their current account deficitS to more manageable proponions in the medium term while maintaining the maximum feasible development effon. . . .It has been recognized that Structural Adjustment Lending by the Bank is complementary to suppon for adjustment programs provided by the International Monetary Fund, particularly in those countries that have agreed upon a three-year program with the Fund.10 This lending to support major changes in policies and institutions of developing countries was designed by the Western capitalist countries in the 1950s. It was the handiwork of C. Douglas Dillion, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. The pillars of the policy include the consonium technique of giving "aid" designed by the U. S. to compel other European powers to share in the OKOLIE 49 "aid" burden; a sh.ift from "project aid" to "program aid" and the need to rely on IMF stand-by arrangements in considering requests. The stand-by arrangements of the IMF were designed to promote "free enterprise"- that is, the unrestricted flow of capital and goods from the West to the underdeveloped countries and unrestrained repatriation of profit When, therefore, governments intervene through such measures as the provision of subsidies, rationing, or tariffs to protect local industries, the IMF sees it as "distortions" of free market relations. According to the Fund, removing these distortions, providing more loans and rescheduling existing debts will make the economies of these underdeveloped countries recover. But the real motive is to finance the export of products of advanced capitalist countries to the poor countries facing foreign exchange crisis because of the downward plunge of the prices of primary products. In the words of Douglas Dillion, "in the delicate area of fiscal and monetary policy, governments find it much easier to accept the counsel of an objective, impartial and highly competent international organization than the advice of other governments, no maner how good or well intentioned."'' This means that given the increasing tendency of Third World governments to protect their local industries, it is easier to fmance exports with credits channelled through the IMF whose conditions favor free trad~. This program was initially called Balance of Payment Support Program. It was later re-named Stabilization Program, and later again, the Structural Adjustment Program. Its components include the removal or liberalization of control on foreign exchange and imports, devaluation of the local currency, domestic inflationary measures such as control of bank credit; high interest rates and higher reserve requirement; reduction of government deficit through cuts in spending, increase in taxes, levies and prices charged by public corporations, removal of subsidies, privatization; wage freeze; more incentives to foreign investors in terms of tariff structure, conditions for profit repatriation, and the creation of industrial free zones. It was the civilian administration headed by Shehu Shagari that ftrst introduced SAP in Nigeria. This is not surprising because of the unprecedented profligacy and prodigality of the Nigerian ruling class during the tenure of that government. Thus while the countty earned over N43 billion from the sale of crude oil alone in the period between 1979 and 1983 (which is higher than all that the country had earned since 1958), its foreign debt rose from Nl.5 billion in 1979 to Nl0.2 billion in 1983. The economic stabilization (Temporary Provisions) Act of April 1982 enabled Shagari to introduce "austerity measures." Five months after these measures were introduced, 72,000 workers were officially recorded to have been retrenched. [/b]
NOTE THAT THIS WAS 79-81, WHEN CORRUPTION WAS NOT YET ENTRENCHED BY IBB.
There are more materials on the internet. You will know that the profligacy of compensation for party members and prodigal spending was pronounced under NPN (My LATE dad was a member of that party against UPN that was so popular in my hometown).
I wish the documentary about Rajendra Sethia and Umaru Dikko was still on YouTube. I was in shock when I first watched it in 1985. Those guys brought down a British bank, Johnson Matheys with their corruption.
The Shagari Administration had a policy of subsidising essential commodities (known as esenco back then) and Umaru Dikko, who was the minister of transport back then, was responsible for issuing the import licenses. He gave licenses to Rajendra Sethia's companies in exchange for bribes and the government paid subsidies to Mr Sethia for rice, sugar and other goods that never arrived.
Johnson Mathey's Bank gave loans to Mr Sethia to finance these deals because they trusted his connection to Umaru Dikko. Then the 1983 coup came and the contracts dried up due to the War Against Indiscipline. Mr Sethia couldn't pay back the loan and the bank almost went under. The Bank of England was forced to bail it out.
I remember all the lavish parties at 1004 and all the madness that went on back then.
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