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Court to send inspectors into Argentine soccer federation HQ (Reuters)
By Maximilian Heath and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's judiciary will send inspectors inside the headquarters of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) as part of an investigation into whether public funds handed to the soccer body for television rights were misused, a court document showed. The Argentine government in 2009 took over the rights to televise national and top tier soccer matches from a local pay-TV cable channel and established a government-subsidized broadcast, dubbed Futbol Para Todos (Football for Everyone), that was free to view. President Cristina Fernandez said earlier this year the government paid 1.6 billion pesos ($176 million) for the programing. More...
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