一 | CHICAGO -- After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at the German Consulate in Chicago, where the pastoral piece showing an Italian countryside was on display. Art Recovery International, a company focused on locating and recovering stolen and looted art, tracked down the elusive painting after a person in Chicago reached out last year claiming to possess a “stolen or looted painting” that their uncle brought back to the U.S. after serving in World War II.The painting has been missing since 1945 and was first reported stolen from the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich, Germany. It was added to the database of the German Lost Art Foundation in 2012, according to a statement from the art recovery company. “The crux of our work at Art Recovery International is the research and restitution of artworks looted by Nazis and discovered in public or private collections. On occasion, we come across cases, such as this, where allied soldiers may have taken objects home as souvenirs or as trophies of wars," said Christopher Marinello, founder of Art Recovery International. "Being on the winning side doesn’t make it right,” he added.The identity of the Chicago resident who had the painting was not shared. The person initially asked Marinello to be paid for the artwork.“I explained our policy of not paying for stolen artwork and that the request was inappropriate,” Marinello said. “We also know that someone tried to sell the painting in the Chicago art market in 2011 and disappeared when the museum put forth their claim.” But with the help of the FBI Art Crime Team, attorneys, and the museum, Marinello negotiated an unconditional surrender of the artwork.The painting, titled “Landscape of Italian Character,” will now reunite with its counterpart, which shares similar motifs and imagery, according to the museum.The two paintings together form a panoramic scene featuring shepherds and travelers with their goats, cows, donkeys and sheep at a ford in a river. The pair will soon be displayed together for the first time since World War II at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, according to Bernd Ebert, the museum's chief curator of Dutch and German baroque paintings.Retrieving a long-lost painting "is actually a very rare moment for us,” Ebert said. “It’s exciting.”The Vienna-born artist, Lauterer, lived from 1700 to 1733.When war broke out in 1939, many Bavarian museum collections were evacuated to safe locations in the region, but the Lauterer painting has been missing since the beginning of the war, suggesting the possibility that it had been looted, according to the museum.The Bavarian State Painting Collections first started searching for the painting between 1965 and 1973, but no clues about its location emerged until decades later.Ebert, who flew from Munich to Chicago to retrieve the painting, will carefully bubble-wrap the centuries-old landscape to take it back home, where it will be touched up and restored after an eventful several decades.Luckily, Ebert said, it should fit in his suitcase.___Savage is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.。
二 | 国际足联还强调，所有这些都须经其211个会员协会中的“多数”批准。谁将受益（各个足协成员、因凡蒂诺）？根据国际足联“前进”发展计划，各会员协会在2027至2030年期间的预算拨款为每协会800万美元。一旦FFE计划获批，各成员协会将立即获得一笔2000万美元（约1500万英镑）的“选择性”资金（目前尚不清楚他们会基于何种理由拒绝这笔资金）。此后在2027-2030年间再获2000万美元，2031至2034年间获2200万美元，2035至2038年间获2400万美元。对于依赖国际足联拨款的那些协会来说，因凡蒂诺此番大手笔将带来翻天覆地的变化。周二公布该计划时，特别提到了佛得角和库拉索，这两个国家/地区正是在“国际足联前进计划”长达十年的持续扶持下，才得以登上世界杯舞台。私募股权投资者自然也希望从中获利。
三 | 尽管公告并没有提到，但因凡蒂诺此前曾传可能在子公司中担任权力极大的“专员”一职，时间点就在他2031年国际足联主席任期结束之后。届时，他每年有望赚取数千万英镑的收入。
四 | 主要参与者有哪些？考虑到因凡蒂诺与特朗普之间的密切关系，此次计划中最受关注的焦点人物当属约书亚·库什纳——他的哥哥贾里德正是美国总统的女婿。这位亿万富翁旗下的Thrive Eternal基金，已被国际足联列为FFE拟议投资者集团的“预期牵头方”。约书亚·库什纳与名模太太卡莉·克劳斯参与FFE筹建的还有Bann Ventures的首席执行官格雷格·马菲，他曾担任自由媒体公司总裁兼首席执行官，正是在其任内，自由媒体完成了对F1（一级方程式赛车）的收购并持续运营至今。此外，摩根大通和OpenEconomics也参与了潜在投资者的搜寻工作。
五 | 国际足联表示，其目标是组建一个“地域分布多元化的投资者群体，以体现国际足联和足球运动的全球属性”。国际足联还透露，截至目前，来自世界各大地区的投资者均已表现出兴趣。我们之前是不是见过类似情况？因凡蒂诺此前就曾尝试推动与私人投资者达成数十亿美元级别的交易。
六 | 早在2018年，他便提出了一项为期12年、总额高达250亿美元的方案，计划由日本软银集团秘密出资，用于打造全新的全球性赛事，其中就包括扩军后的男足世俱杯，而沙特阿拉伯的资金似乎也为其提供了支持。然而，这一提议最终在欧足联的强烈反对下夭折，因为欧足联认为其核心赛事资产——欧冠联赛和欧洲杯正面临威胁。这对足球运动意味着什么？FIFA在公告中对出售世界杯股份可能引发的深远影响轻描淡写。然而，私募股权介入后，很可能迫使相关方为新投资者追求利润最大化，即便这会损害足球运动的整体利益。首届48队世界杯刚刚落幕，国际足联已在酝酿下届扩军至64支球队。
七 | 加纳主帅奎罗斯就批评今夏扩军的效果“粗俗又平庸”。改制后的32队世俱杯，第二届赛事同样可能进一步扩容。同时，关于世界杯或世俱杯是否改为每两年举办一届的讨论也可能再度浮出水面。此外，补水暂停或将成为比赛常态，而世界杯票价除了最富裕的球迷外，绝大多数人仍将难以承受。球员权益组织屡屡对密集赛程表达担忧。球员工会Fifpro此前报告称，部分球员全年休息时间仅占12%，根源在于赛事组织方未将球员福利放在首位。当时效力于曼城的德布劳内就曾指出，对国际足联和欧足联而言，金钱远比球员福祉更重要。各方反应如何？因凡蒂诺称，这项计划旨在“推动全球足球民主化”，并承诺大力投资“那些最偏远、最常被忽视的足球角落”。然而，他立即遭到最富有的的欧足联的反对。
八 | 欧足联指出，此举“越过了足球管理机构不应触碰的红线”，并呼吁所有关心足球未来的人正视这一威胁。欧足联强调，“足球的灵魂与管理权绝非可以买卖的商品，尤其在对获利方毫无透明度的前提下。
九 | 没有人是足球的主人，足球也不是国际足联可以随意出售的。”其他一些批评者则用“核弹”、“比欧超联赛更糟糕”来形容这一计划。挪威一直公开批评因凡蒂诺，正考虑就美国前锋巴洛贡禁赛解禁的决定，提出道德投诉。英足总目前尚未发表评论，据悉，英足总曾支持因凡蒂诺留任国际足联主席。因凡蒂诺预计将在明年连任该职务。
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