The match for promotion to the category ended 59-1 (41 own goals), 4 teams are excluded from the championship for tricks

2022-06-10 13:05:00Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The match for promotion to the category ended 59-1 (41 own goals), 4 teams are
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The final week of the championship always raises doubts, especially when there are particular escalations in the rankings and results occur that make us imagine that things did not go right.

As in the story told by "Marca", which deals with the third division of South Africa.

Matiyasi FC and Shivulani Dangerous Tigers were playing to move up a category, with the "Tigers" having the best goal difference (+16 goals). The only way to get it back? Definitely match-fixing, taking advantage of the fact that last week’s opponents did not want to see them celebrate. Result? 59-1, very odd, with a good number of own goals (41).

Enough to launch an investigation, which eventually led to the exclusion of the four teams. Yes, because while one match ended 59-1, the other, that of Shivulani against Kotoko Happy Boys, took an equally bizarre turn in the second half. When word spread that Matiyasi was 22-0 ahead in the first half, an agreement was reached in the other area of ​​interest as well.

Some Kotokos players left the field, justifying that they were very tired and in the end it was played with 11 against 7 players. The final score, 33-1, which anyway would not be enough to climb a category higher, given that the goal difference at that moment was in favor of the opponents. But two such matches could not but attract the attention of the authorities.

And as Vincent Ramphago, president of the Mopani region, explains to BBC Sport Africa, the question was clear: "When the four teams met in March, the results were much more normal, with Matiyasi beating Mighty Birds 2-1 and Dangerous "The Tigers drew 2-2 with the Happy Boys."

In short, there was indeed something suspicious. All the more so as the judges seem to have been part of the plans. "We found out that one of the referees wrote that number 2 scored 10 goals, 5 scored 20 goals, but there were 41 own goals. So look at what is left on the note sheet. "These people have no respect for football and I can not allow such things to happen again."

So the clubs were suspended forever, executives with five to eight years, while the referees will not touch the "whistle" orally for a decade.


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