{"id":2802,"date":"2014-03-17T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2014-03-17T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T17:52:05","slug":"fifa-ban-two-english-footballers-for-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/fifa-ban-two-english-footballers-for-match-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Ban Two English Footballers For Match Fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">\n<p itemprop=\"description\">Two English footballers have been banned for life by Fifa after helping fix games in Australia for a global betting syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>Reiss Noel and Joe Woolley, both 24, pleaded guilty\u00a0to conduct that corrupts a betting outcome in December.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, who played for Southern Stars in the Victorian Premier League, were originally suspended by the Football Federation of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>A coach and two further players remain underindefinite bans by FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa has pledged to tackle match fixing with a number of moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fifa continues to work closely with its member associations and the confederations to tackle match manipulation,&#8221; the world governing body said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of a 10-year programme of collaboration with Interpol, regional workshops involving key stakeholders are being held all over the world while e-learning programmes are also helping to educate players, coaches and referees on the dangers of match manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other initiatives include the signing of an integrity declaration by officials, the monitoring of the betting market via Fifa&#8217;s subsidiary Early Warning System and the setting up of an e-learning ethics tool, an integrity hotline and e-mail address and a confidential reporting system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two English footballers have been banned for life by Fifa after helping fix games in Australia for a global betting syndicate. Reiss Noel and Joe Woolley, both 24, pleaded guilty\u00a0to conduct that corrupts a betting outcome in December. The pair, who played for Southern Stars in the Victorian Premier League, were originally suspended by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,80],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}