ABSTRACT This article explores the roots of football corruption in Israel in the first decades after independence. A socio-historical analysis of documents, correspondence, and newspaper items reveals the key role played by sports officials in corruption in the football industry. More broadly, the article shows that the historical context and a political model of commitment to political centres in which sports in Israel in general and Israeli football in particular operated constituted fertile ground for unorthodox conduct and practices that undermined the integrity of football matches. These findings challenge various theories that argue that corruption in sports has universal features that are independent of specific historical, social, cultural circumstances.

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早期以色列足球运动官员的腐败

摘要 本文探讨了以色列独立后最初几十年足球腐败的根源。对文件、信件和报纸项目的社会历史分析揭示了体育官员在足球行业腐败中发挥的关键作用。更广泛地说，这篇文章表明，以色列的体育运动尤其是以色列足球在其中开展的政治中心的历史背景和政治模式构成了破坏足球比赛完整性的非正统行为和做法的沃土。这些发现挑战了各种理论，这些理论认为体育中的腐败具有独立于特定历史、社会、文化环境的普遍特征。