Players Approached to Fix Matches in I-League, Says FA – News18

Several gamers of India’s I-League golf equipment have been approached to repair matches this season, the nation’s soccer federation mentioned on Thursday.

“We have received information of multiple approaches to our players,” All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Kalyan Chaubey mentioned in a press release.

“We will thoroughly examine the incidents, investigate, and take all necessary action.”

The federation didn’t identify gamers or golf equipment who had been approached to “manipulate matches” in the nation’s second-tier competitors that includes 13 golf equipment.

Chaubey mentioned the federation would additional strengthen its system to counter such threats and educate gamers and officers on how to recognise such corrupt practices and report them.

The AIFF arrange its anti-corruption unit a decade in the past after a Malaysian betting syndicate approached Indian gamers to repair I-League matches.

It integrity officer Javed Siraj didn’t take calls by Reuters looking for particulars however a senior AIFF official, on situation of anonymity, referred to as it a “concern”.

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