UEFA Fixed Matches

UEFA charges Macedonian club with match-fixing

NYON, Switzerland — UEFA on Thursday blamed the president for Macedonian football club FK Pobeda and one of its players with fixing a Heroes Association game quite a while back.
UEFA said the pair, who were not quickly distinguished, were blamed for "controlling the result … to acquire an unnecessary benefit for them and an outsider."

The charge connects with a Heroes Association first qualifying round match among Pobeda and Armenian club FC Pyunik on July 13, 2004.

The meeting Armenian side won 3-1 in Skopje in the wake of scoring three first-half objectives. The groups drew the second leg 1-1, with Pobeda going out 4-2 on total. The UEFA charge proposes the Macedonian club lost the main leg purposely. UEFA said it got reports from bookmakers of unpredictable wagering designs and has taken proclamations from a few observers.

UEFA president Michel Platini comment:

Thursday's charges come a day after UEFA president Michel Platini said match-fixing was the best issue confronting European soccer. "Illegal betting can kill our sport," Platini told delegates from the mainland's 53 soccer countries at their yearly congress in Copenhagen. " Assuming the outcomes are fixed ahead of time, football has no great explanation to exist." Recently UEFA moved forward its battle against defilement by consenting to designate two additional auditors to its examination unit. UEFA has likewise elaborate Interpol, the 187-part worldwide police organization, in its examinations.

In 2007 the soccer body gave over a dossier containing subtleties of 15 matches it accepted may have been fixed.

They included qualifying matches for the 2008 European Title, Champions Association and UEFA Cup.

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