Europe's match-fixing problem highlighted by players' survey
by Associated Press
LONDONNov 30, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Associated Press
Nov 30, 2016 12:00 am
European football's challenge in eradicating match-fixing has been highlighted by a large number of players in Cyprus and Malta telling the world players' union that they have been approached to fix games.
FIFPro says 40.5 percent of the 235 respondents to its player survey from Cyprus reported being aware of fixing in their league and 18.6 percent said they had been approached to fix a game. FIFPro received responses from 112 players in Malta, with 18.2 percent of players saying they were aware of fixing and 15.5 percent reporting being approached to fix a match.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin told The Associated Press last month that "match fixing is killing the game," and said "we haven't done enough" to clean up the game. The global survey of players by FIFPAro lacked responses from football's biggest leagues in England, Spain and Germany or Asia.
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