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Match fixing: FIFA bans former Super Eagles coach Siasia for life

Match fixing: FIFA bans former Super Eagles coach Siasia for life
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Zurich, Aug. 16, 2019 (Reuters/NAN) Former Nigeria national team coach Samson Siasia has been banned from the game for life following a match-fixing probe by world governing body FIFA.
FIFA said in a statement on Friday that the adjudicatory chamber of their independent Ethics Committee found that Siasia was “guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics’’.
The 51-year-old Siasia played 51 times as a striker for the Nigerian national team and later coached various national youth sides before a spell as senior coach in 2016.
The case is the latest to emerge from FIFA’s long-running investigation into the activities of Singaporean Wilson Raj Perumal, who FIFA has called a “known match fixer” and who has admitted such activity in several interviews.
FIFA said that he was banned for life “from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level.”
Siasia has also been fined CHF 50,000 (41,997.1 pounds).
Siasia, a former Nigerian international was appointed Super Eagles head coach from 2010 to Oct. 2011.
He was reappointed for a short spell in 2016. (Reuters/NAN)
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Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

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Sentencing delayed as Hong Kong continues match-fixing fight

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Hong Kong (China), April 20, 2018 (Reuters/NAN) Former Hong Kong Player of the Year Lee Wai-lim, who pleaded guilty to match-fixing last year, has had his sentencing postponed until May 4.

This comes up a day after four of his former team mates were acquitted.

Lee pleaded guilty to one count of being an agent accepting an advantage and another of conspiracy to defraud for his part in an attempt to influence games.

The games in question involved Hong Kong’s reserve team league in the 2015-16 season.

He has been in custody since September.

Kwok Kin-pong, Michael Cheng Lai-hin, Chan Pak-hang and Lee Ka-ho were all released on Thursday after being found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud and of offering and accepting bribes.

Hong Kong Football Association chief executive Mark Sutcliffe said match-fixing continues to be an issue in the city.

“Match-fixing is an insidious cancer,” Sutcliffe said this week during the SoccerEx China Forum in Zhuhai.

“Players have been fixing games and there are examples of that.

“There have been examples of players being convicted, losing their livelihood, their reputation and sometimes they’ve lost their freedom because they’ve been given custodial sentences.”

Betting on matches played overseas is legal in Hong Kong but placing wagers on local games is prohibited.

Sutcliffe has called on the authorities to look into changing the existing regulations. (Reuters/NAN)
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(Edited by Olawale Alabi)