After Benin, Namibia raise match-fixing fears

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

ACCRA (AFP) — The match-fixing shadow over the African Nations Cup lengthened here Saturday with Namibia revealing they were approached to 'throw' their next game against Guinea.

The players were reportedly offered 30,000 dollars each from a man claiming to represent a betting syndicate.

The team, who have no hope of making the quarter-finals after defeats to Ghana and Morocco, alerted their national football association president John Muinjo who has passed the matter on to the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

This is the second reported incident of attempted match rigging in Ghana following Benin coach Reinhard Fabisch's claim that he had been approached by a Singapore-based syndicate last Saturday.

CAF official Soulemine Habouba told AFP:...