{"id":8602,"date":"2012-03-06T02:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-before-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:55:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:47","slug":"update-1-soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-before-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-before-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Soccer-South Africa duped by fixers before World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Referees provided for friendlies by match fixers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* No South African players complicit<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Further embarrassment for embattled FA<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(adds byline, quotes, more details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Gleeson<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa were duped into<br \/>\nallowing an Asian match fixing syndicate to provide them with<br \/>\nreferees for a series of warm-up games before they hosted the<br \/>\n2010 World Cup, FIFA security chief Chris Eaton said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The outcome of friendly internationals against Thailand,<br \/>\nColombia, Bulgaria and Guatemala in the weeks leading up to the<br \/>\ntournament are all in question after FIFA found the match<br \/>\nofficials had been provided by a Singapore-based company,<br \/>\nfronting for match fixers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eaton said the South African Football Association had taken<br \/>\nup an offer from Wilson Perumal, who has since been convicted in<br \/>\nFinland on match fixing charges, to use his company for the<br \/>\nprocurement of referees for the games.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that the convicted criminal and football<br \/>\nmatch-fixer, Wilson Raj Perumal, was involved in convincing SAFA<br \/>\nto agree to a company then managed by him (Football4U) to<br \/>\nselect, fund and appoint referees to certain international<br \/>\nmatches played in 2010, which are now under investigation,&#8221;<br \/>\nEaton said in a statement released on his behalf by the South<br \/>\nAfricans on Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Referees provided for friendlies by match fixers * No South African players complicit * Further embarrassment for embattled FA (adds byline, quotes, more details) By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN, March 5 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa were duped into allowing an Asian match fixing syndicate to provide them with referees for a series of warm-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}