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Court to send inspectors into Argentine soccer federation HQ

By Maximilian Heath and Richard Lough

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's judiciary will send inspectors inside the headquarters of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) as part of an investigation into whether public funds handed to the soccer body for television rights were misused, a court document showed.

This comes amid increased scrutiny globally into financial flows inside the world of soccer, but is not part of a widening U.S. probe into corruption inside FIFA and its confederations.

The Argentine government in 2009 took over the rights to televise national and top tier soccer matches from a local pay-TV cable channel and established a government-subsidized broadcast, dubbed Futbol Para Todos (Football for Everyone), that was free to view.