格雷厄姆·邓巴 日内瓦——丑闻缠身的曼彻斯特城足球俱乐部主席哈勒敦·穆巴拉克今年在达沃斯与唐纳德·特朗普会面，代表阿拉伯联合酋长国政府加入这位美国总统的“和平委员会”。
GRAHAM DUNBAR GENEVA — Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of the scandal-plagued Manchester City soccer club, sat with Donald Trump in Davos this year,g on to the U.S. president’s Board of Peace on behalf of the United Arab Emirates government.
6月，他与法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙一同出现在凡尔赛宫，出席一场商业峰会的签约仪式。
He was with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles in June at ag ceremony for a business summit.
现年50岁的穆巴拉克还是阿联酋驻华特使，并在2015年中国领导人习近平访问英格兰时，在俱乐部接待了他。
Al Mubarak, 50, also is a UAE special envoy to China, and welcomed Xi Jinping to the club when the Chinese leader visited England in 2015.
为什么一家英格兰足球俱乐部——尽管是最富有、最成功、如今也最具争议的俱乐部之一——的负责人会在此类政治活动中扮演关键角色，原因不难解释。
Why the head of an English soccer club — albeit one of the wealthiest, most successful and now highly controversial — should be a key player at such political events is easily explained.
穆巴拉克是2023年欧冠冠军的公众形象代表，如今深陷足球界最大丑闻之一。他是阿布扎比——阿拉伯联合酋长国的一部分——统治精英的成员，也是一只规模达3850亿美元的主权财富基金的负责人。
Al Mubarak, the public face of the 2023 Champions League winner now embroiled in one of soccer’s biggest scandals, is a member of the ruling elite in Abu Dhabi — part of the United Arab Emirates — and the head of a $385 billion sovereign wealth fund .
他的家族有着悠久的公共服务传统，他本人也延续了这一传统，担任过一长串服务于国家利益的职务，包括担任阿联酋总统谢赫穆罕默德·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬（简称MBZ）的战略顾问，以及阿布扎比商业银行和阿布扎比国家石油公司的董事会成员。
His family has a long tradition of public service that he has continued with a long list of roles serving his nation’s interests, including as a strategy advisor to its president, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan , known as MBZ, and a board member of both Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.
在进入欧洲足球界之前，当阿布扎比大奖赛加入赛历时，穆巴拉克曾是与F1之间的关键联络人。
Before entering European soccer, Al Mubarak was a key liaison with F1 when the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix joined the circuit.
当谢赫曼苏尔·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬——现为阿联酋副总理——于2008年买下这家长期表现不佳的足球俱乐部时，穆巴拉克被任命为主席，负责监督此后发生的、在老一辈球迷看来几乎难以置信的逆转。
When Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, now a deputy prime minister of the UAE, bought the long-time underachieving soccer club in 2008, Al Mubarak was installed as chairman to oversee what became a turnaround that was barely believable to an older generation of fans.
根据一个调查小组的裁决，这段体育与财务成功的故事好得令人难以置信。
The story of sporting and financial success was, according to the verdict by an investigatory panel, too good to be true.
英超联赛周二宣布，过去15个赛季中最成功的俱乐部、也是当前积分榜领头羊，多年来系统性地违反了财务监管规则。
The Premier League announced Tuesday that its most successful club over the past 15 seasons, and current standings leader, systematically broke financial monitoring rules for years.
一个由联赛任命的独立法官小组表示，曼城与商业伙伴策划了“虚假”合同，以掩盖阿布扎比所有权方在2009至2018年间超过8.3亿英镑（约11亿美元）的秘密注资。俱乐部证人还提供了“他们明知不实”的证据。这些资金帮助支付了高额转会费和球员工资，其中一些球员是从曼城最大的竞争对手签下的，推动了俱乐部在奖杯上的崛起，使其成为欧洲强队。
An independent panel of judges appointed by the league said City orchestrated “sham” contracts with commercial partners to disguise secret funding of more than 830 million pounds ($1.1 billion) by the Abu Dhabi ownership between 2009-18. Club witnesses also gave evidence “they knew to be untrue.”That money helped pay high-value transfer fees and wages for players , some signed from City’s biggest rivals , that fueled the club’s trophy-laden rise to become a European power.
对曼城来说，这是一个良性循环：赢得冠军带来更多奖金，并打造全球品牌，从而吸引更多世界顶级球员，比如当今的超级射手埃尔林·哈兰德。
For City it was a virtuous circle: winning titles led to earning more prize money and building a global brand that led to attracting more of the world’s best players, like today’s superstar goal scorer Erling Haaland.
这项毁灭性的裁决称，俱乐部违反了旨在保持俱乐部财务稳定和安全的英超规则，而阿森纳、利物浦和曼联等竞争对手都遵守了这些规则。曼城可以对此提出上诉。
The devastating judgment, which City can appeal, said the club broke Premier League rules designed to keep clubs financially stable and secure, and which rivals like Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United complied with.
有关即将作出的裁决的报道于周五泄露给The Athletic，俱乐部一天后通过阿尔·穆巴拉克发表声明作出回应。
Reports of the pending verdict leaked Friday to The Athletic, and the club responded a day later with a statement from Al Mubarak .
“这是我对家人说的话，”他说。“英超的程序还有很长的路要走，我们证明俱乐部清白的信心和决心与这件事开始时一样强烈。”
“Here’s what I said to my family,” he said. “The Premier League process still has a long way to run, and our confidence and intent in proving the Club’s innocence is just as strong as when this began.”
在2009年接受英国《卫报》的一次罕见采访中，他谈到曼城代表着阿布扎比的价值观。“这些价值观是忠诚、承诺、纪律、长远思考、尊重、对历史的欣赏。”“这正在向世界展示阿布扎比是谁以及阿布扎比代表什么的真正本质，”他说。
In a rare interview in 2009 , with British daily The Guardian, he spoke of City as representing Abu Dhabi’s values. “These are loyalty, commitment, discipline, long-term thinking, respect, appreciation of history.”“This is showing the world the true essence of who Abu Dhabi is and what Abu Dhabi is about,” he said.
阿尔·穆巴拉克优雅而善于表达，是许多人眼中这一项目的化身；在很多人看来，这既是一位酋长的个人投资，也是阿布扎比软实力的延伸。他还是城市足球集团主席，这是一个由曼城为核心、包含12家俱乐部的全球网络，其中包括纽约城足球俱乐部。
Al Mubarak was an elegant, articulate embodiment of a project many saw as an extension of Abu Dhabi soft power as much as a sheikh’s personal investment. He also is chairman of City Football Group , the global network of 12 clubs anchored by Man City that includes New York City FC.
他毕业于波士顿附近塔夫茨大学，获得经济学学位，并在众多关键政府职位中负责监管穆巴达拉财富基金。
A graduate in economics from Tufts University near Boston, he oversees the Mubadala wealth fund among a slew of key government positions.
穆巴拉克的父亲哈立法·穆巴拉克是一名外交官，曾担任阿联酋驻法国大使。
Al Mubarak’s father, Khalifa Al Mubarak, was a diplomat who served as the UAE’s ambassador to France.
1984年2月，他在巴黎被暗杀，在埃菲尔铁塔附近其住所外的街道上中枪身亡。哈勒敦·穆巴拉克当时8岁。这起杀人事件与阿布·尼达尔组织有关，该组织是一个呼吁摧毁以色列的暴力组织。
He was assassinated in Paris in February 1984, shot on a street outside his residence close to the Eiffel Tower. Khaldoon Al Mubarak was 8. The killing was linked to the Abu Nidal Organization, a violent group calling for Israel’s destruction.
海湾媒体报道称，年轻的哈勒敦在父亲去世后受到王室家族的指导。2018年，阿布扎比的一条街道以这位遇害外交官的名字重新命名。
Gulf media has reported that the young Khaldoon was mentored by the royal family in the wake of his father’s death. In 2018 a street in Abu Dhabi was renamed for the slain diplomat.
随着曼城的财务状况及其对足球规则的遵守情况受到更多审查，包括欧足联在2014年和2020年作出裁定的调查，穆巴拉克的公开评论仅限于由俱乐部自己的工作人员拍摄并进行的赛季末采访。
As Man City’s finances and compliance with soccer’s rules came under more scrutiny, including by UEFA investigations judged in 2014 and 2020, Al Mubarak’s public comments were limited to end-of-season interviews filmed and conducted by the club’s own staff.
2020年欧足联的一起标志性案件——曼城通过上诉推翻了为期两年的欧冠禁赛并获胜——以及英超联赛的案件，都是由俱乐部内部电子邮件和一名黑客兼吹哨人获得的文件引发的。
A landmark UEFA case in 2020 — won by City on an appeal that overturned a two-year ban from the Champions League — and the Premier League case were sparked by internal club emails and documents obtained by a hacker-whistleblower .
这些内容由德国《明镜周刊》在2018年11月的一系列文章中发表，使外界得以了解这位曼城主席寻求法律战的决心。
They were published in a series of articles by German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2018, that gave insight into the City chairman’s resolve for a legal battle.
2014年，当欧足联时任秘书长、现任国际足联主席詹尼·因凡蒂诺与曼城就通过罚款了结一项违规行为进行谈判时，俱乐部律师西蒙·克利夫发送了一封至今仍未被遗忘的电子邮件。
In 2014, when UEFA’s then-general secretary, now FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, was in talks with Man City about settling a rules breach with a fine, the club’s lawyer Simon Cliff sent an email with a line yet to be forgotten.
克利夫写道：“哈勒敦说，他宁愿花3000万聘请世界上最好的50名律师，在未来10年起诉他们。”在此查看美联社的全部足球报道
“Khaldoon said,” Cliff wrote, “he would rather spend 30 million on the 50 best lawyers in the world to sue them for the next 10 years.”See AP’s full soccer coverage here