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Tuesday briefing: FC Barcelona call for Tebas to resign over claims he provided false evidence in Negreira case

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FC Barcelona have called for LaLiga president Javier Tebas to resign after a Spanish newspaper report claimed he provided false evidence to the Spanish public prosecutor's office during its investigation into the Negreira case.

Last month, the prosecutor's office filed corruption charges against Barcelona, as well as former club presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu, over allegations that the former referee Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira received more than €7 million in pa

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