92 SKorean footballers accused of draft-dodging: report

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SEOUL (AFP) — South Korean prosecutors Sunday indicted 92 footballers for deliberately damaging their bodies in a bid to dodge compulsory military service, a report said.

The players dislocated their shoulders with dumb-bell exercises to get orthopedic operations which helped them justify their absence from service in 2006 and 2007, Yonhap news agency said.

After making themselves physically unfit for the military, six were completely exempted from service while 86 were allowed to do community service at state offices instead, according to Yonhap.

Some of the footballers ruptured muscles to help dislocate the shoulder, the report added.

It did not disclose the names of the indicted players, but said they included 15 former and incumbent players from...