Ich habe Mario Goijman, den tapferen Argentinier, schon oft gewürdigt, hier und anderswo. Ich hatte Tränen in den Augen, als der wunderbare Mario 2005 bei der vierten Play-the-Game-Konferenz in Kopenhagen den Ehrenpreis erhielt. Die Bekanntschaft mit Goijman, sein unglaublicher Kampf, sein fulminanter Vortrag damals und seine einzigartige Webseite, auf der er das VOLLEYGATE dokumentiert, haben mich schwer beeindruckt – und mir wohl auch einen Energieschub verschafft. Denn nach dieser Erfahrung habe ich damals, unmittelbar nach Play the Game 2005, die sportnetzwerk-Diskussion eröffnet.

Ich sehe gerade, dass Goijmans Webseite zum Volleygate nicht erreichbar ist und weiß gar nicht, ob er sie wegen juristischer Probleme aus dem Netz nehmen musste. Deshalb die Empfehlung zu Play the Game, wo zahlreiche Artikel, Links, Dokumente etc. zum Volleygate zusammen gestellt sind. Außerdem empfehle ich die Beiträge von Javier Cáceres (Süddeutsche) und Christian Putsch (Die Welt). Mario Goijman hat (s)ein Kapitel zum Buch „Korruption im Sport“ geschrieben: „the breathtaking story of King Rubén and Queen Malú“.

Lange Vorrede, nun zum Thema: Goijman hat einen verzehrenden Kampf gegen den Sonnenkönig Acosta, die Schweizer Justiz und die Ignoranz des IOC ausgefochten. Er hat diesen ungleichen Kampf mit seinem Vermögen bezahlt, mit seiner Gesundheit, mit seiner Ehe, mit seinen Ehrenämtern. Nun wird er sogar von der argentinischen Justiz belangt, weil er damals, als Organisationschef der Volleyball-WM 2002, für die Vergehen seines Vertragspartners (FIVB/Acosta) gerade stehen musste. Gerade hat Mario Goijman in einer traurigen Email seine Teilnahme an der sechsten Auflage von Play the Game in Coventry absagen müssen.

So trifft es einen, der die Probleme nicht in der Sportfamilie lösen will, sondern Transparenz herstellt, Korruption aufdeckt und Gerechtigkeit vor Gericht einfordert. So trifft es einen, der sich selbst als Whistleblower und Sport Justice Fighter bezeichnet. Bitte unbedingt lesen!

Von: mario goijman
Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 17:12
An: Jens Sejer Andersen; Ezequiel Fernández Moores, Pablo Vignone, Andrew Jennings, Henrik Brandt, Jens Weinreich
Betreff: RE: Last information for Play the Game speakers

Buenos Aires, Jun 9  2009 

Dear Play the Games friends. 

I have sad tears in my eyes and a great depression in my chest. Also when I sat in front of my Computer I can not hold my strong sensation of injustice and my loneliness.

Most of the people I know had forgotten what happened in Argentina and Switzerland with my fight inside my sport: Volleyball; they seem to remember that something unfair and not clear occurred since 2002, and the World Championship held in my country, and a following fight in Lausanne, but they don’t remember details about it, and the names of Ruben Acosta, Mario Goijman, Jean Pierre Seppey and the FIVB (International Volleyball Federation) are confused in their minds.

Thanks to Play the Games I had now the opportunity to remind them the facts, that made that organization to give me the PLAY THE GAME AWARD 2005, for my fight against corruption in Sport, and to know from first hand what happened after that, inside the FIVB, and mainly in the Lausanne Courts. 

But the Mario Goijman you knew in 2002 or 2005 is different now.

Damaged by the fight, being ignored by many of the silent (accomplices for omission) participants in the Volleyball World, damaged by their disloyalty to principles and justice, and dominated by dirty interest, or scared to intervene while and innocent, proactive and honest leader from a country very far away from the main world was lynched.

Damaged by the absurd decisions from of some Canton of Vaud Judges, and the unjustified long delays of others, pressed by the economic interest of a powerful organization, capable to pay with dirty money expensive lawyers that obtain with tricks and pressure such results in those that are supposed to defend the truth and the Justice,

Damaged in my small patrimony by very expensive legal fees, that had to be afforded alone, and the countless trips from Buenos Aires to Lausanne to attend hearings without any result.

Damaged by the lost of patience from the 2002 World Championship creditors unpaid, beside the money deposited in the FIVB treasury by sponsors and TV obtained due to my effort in Argentina; and using the warranties I personally gave to them to obtain the Argentina W.Ch. success, based in the contracts and rules among FIVB and Local Organizers, afterwards illegally violated by Acosta and Seppey, and still unpaid with the objective of damaging Mario Goijman, as revenge.

Some of these creditors initiated actions against me, as guarantor of their loans, notwithstanding their knowledge of the unfair situation.

Damaged at last by the weariness of many of my argentine colleagues over passed by the uneven and never ended fight.

Yesterday night, when I went to the airport for my trip to Coventry (on my birthday) to meet you and telling about my strong disappointment, I was stopped by an Argentine Order of Interdiction to abandon the Country in one of the lawsuits that began in demand of the 2002 World Championship credits that I candidly guaranteed in 2002, for which I did not asked for permission.

Thus, with tears of impotence I came back home to try to explain my frustration.

You will not have my story about lies and injustice, that  happened since 2005,  

With my best appreciation

Mario Daniel Goijman
Whistleblower, and sports justice fighter