TifoTrust
A fan-run scorecard that tracks the off-pitch entanglements of national-team coaches and star players, including sponsorships, political ties and gambling deals, with a public 'fan concern' rating per figure.
National-team football fans who care about governance and ethics
- Public ledger of ambassadorships, sponsorships and political associations for each major national team figure
- Crowdsourced 'fan concern' score per figure, with a one-line context summary of each flagged tie
- Side-by-side federation comparison so fans can see how transparent Italy, Germany, France and others are
- Weekly newsletter that flags new controversies with links to primary sources and prior precedent cases
The Pirlo-Fonbet saga is the highest-profile case yet of a federation vetting failure, and it follows similar scandals around ambassadors in other countries, showing the problem is structural rather than one-off.
Pirlo-Fonbet story confirmed across BBC, NYT, ESPN (July 2026), but the cited Google Trends signal is only 200+ searches on 'italy' in GB — modest for a niche governance tracker.Pirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting ties ↗Pirlo says he won't coach Italy amid betting ties ↗
EndorseWiki and the Sportshandle sportsbook partnership tracker already cover adjacent territory (athlete endorsements and betting deals); a fan-rating layer combining gambling+political+sponsorship is novel but the endorsement-tracking niche is occupied.EndorseWiki - The Ultimate Athlete Endorsement Database ↗Sportsbooks Partnership Tracker - Leagues, Teams & Celebs ↗
Adjacent products (EndorseWiki, sportsbook tracker) appear free; the DOJ NFL subscription-fee probe shows fans actively resist paying for football content, and a niche ethics scorecard has weak willingness-to-pay evidence.NFL under DOJ investigation over fan subscription fees ↗
Scandals are episodic (Pirlo-Fonbet blew up in days); structural problem recurs but public attention fades between incidents, making sustained engagement hard.Pirlo reveals he is 'no longer a candidate' for Italy job ↗
Underlying data (endorsements, political donations, gambling deals) is largely public and scrapable, but a crowdsourced 'fan concern' rating invites subjectivity, bias and defamation risk that require editorial overhead.