Jack
24-11-2009, 08:47 AM
PARIS — After F.C. Thun, a second-tier professional soccer club in Switzerland, was routed by 5-1 in April by a rival, Yverdon, officials were scratching their heads trying to figure out why their team had lost so badly.
Giuseppe Postiglione, owner of Potenza S.C., was arrested on Monday in Italy.
The poor showing was particularly surprising for a team that in 2005 had advanced deep into the Champions League, a competition for the elite teams of Europe.
“Many players didn’t perform like we know them,” Markus Stahli, the president of F.C. Thun, said in a telephone interview Monday.
A possible reason has emerged: the game may have been rigged.
As details trickle out in a match-fixing scandal described as the biggest in European soccer history, the Thun-Yverdon game is one of about 200 under investigation in Switzerland and eight other countries for possible manipulation linked to an international betting ring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/sports/soccer/24fix.html?_r=1&th&emc=th (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/sports/soccer/24fix.html?_r=1&th&emc=th)
Couldn’t be that underperforming teams in other leagues are involved in similar?
What price are Hahahearts for the drop? :faf:
Giuseppe Postiglione, owner of Potenza S.C., was arrested on Monday in Italy.
The poor showing was particularly surprising for a team that in 2005 had advanced deep into the Champions League, a competition for the elite teams of Europe.
“Many players didn’t perform like we know them,” Markus Stahli, the president of F.C. Thun, said in a telephone interview Monday.
A possible reason has emerged: the game may have been rigged.
As details trickle out in a match-fixing scandal described as the biggest in European soccer history, the Thun-Yverdon game is one of about 200 under investigation in Switzerland and eight other countries for possible manipulation linked to an international betting ring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/sports/soccer/24fix.html?_r=1&th&emc=th (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/sports/soccer/24fix.html?_r=1&th&emc=th)
Couldn’t be that underperforming teams in other leagues are involved in similar?
What price are Hahahearts for the drop? :faf: