12 February 2017

Worldwide ban for dishonest officials

This week the world football organization had plenty of work by removing some dishonorable football officials and banning them to appear on a worldwide basis.
Last month FIFA has discovered a documents scam in Timor-Leste FA for 12 players. Officials, with the help of falsifying birth papers, deliberately made Brazilians to play for the national team. As Timor-Leste nationals those footballers played freely mostly in competitive games, such as Asian cup preliminaries together with World cup qualifiers for Russia 2018. In total 29 games were affected and under jurisdiction of FIFA, couple were punished as well. One of them, general secretary Amandio (Amandio de Araujo Sarmento) got a 3 year expulsion first, plus a fine, but from now on he is barred to participate in the sport throughout the world. In relation to this scam at the end of January, AFC has thrown out the team to participate at the Asian cup 2023 edition.
Five functionaries from Nigeria FA are also penalized. Muazu Suleyman, Yahaya Adama, Sani Fema, Christopher Giwa and Johnson Effiong are all guilty of influencing the game in the country. Because of that, they will all take 'forced rest' from football on 5 years.
The man in black gave himself a direct red card...at least for the next 18 months. For year and a half we will not see South Korean Kim Sang-woo anywhere in the world. Besides many, the 41 year old referee also officiated matches from the World cup qualifiers and K(orean)-league.

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