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African football powerbroker Fouzi Lekjaa takes minister of finance job in Morocco

October 19 – Moroccan FA president and FIFA Council member Fouzi Lekjaa has been named Minister of Finance in the country. A powerbroker in African football built through his long-standing alliance with FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, Lkjaa previously served as the country’s ‘director of budget’, but his new role will see him become a minister in the cabinet in Morocco.

— Inside World Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

16 outlets7 languages11 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

World Soccer Talk

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Our read

Corroborated (7)

7 of 9 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 2 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 9 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 16 we have seen.

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    Estadao EsportesPT · BROwn reporting

    Jornal inglês admite erro e pede desculpas por fake news contra Infantino

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    Mundo Deportivo — FútbolES · ESOwn reporting

    The Times se disculpa ante la FIFA

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First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.