{"id":8604,"date":"2012-03-06T02:55:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-ahead-of-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T02:55:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T00:55:49","slug":"soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-south-africa-duped-by-fixers-ahead-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-South Africa duped by fixers ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN, March 5<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa were<br \/>\nduped into allowing an Asian match fixing syndicate to provide<br \/>\nthem with referees for a series of warm-up games before they<br \/>\nhosted the 2010 World Cup, FIFA security chief Chris Eaton said<br \/>\non Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It follows a four-day visit to the country by Eaton to look<br \/>\ninto newspaper allegations that the results of friendlies<br \/>\ninvolving the host country ahead of the finals were fixed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eaton, in a statement released by the South African Football<br \/>\nAssociation, said there was no evidence any of the South African<br \/>\nplayers were part of the alleged deceit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The revelations come as a further embarrassment to the<br \/>\nembattled association, whose national team last year failed to<br \/>\nqualify for the African Nations Cup finals because they did not<br \/>\nunderstand the rules.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Mark Gleeson; Editing by Mark Meadows)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 games before they hosted the 2010 World Cup, FIFA security chief Chris Eaton said on Monday. It follows a four-day visit to the country by Eaton to look [&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-8604","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\/8604","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=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}