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Blatter calls for life bans for match-fixers

Fifa president Sepp Blatter today said anyone found guilty of match-fixing in the scandal that has shaken Zimbabwean football will be given life bans. Zimbabwe players were paid to lose games on a tour of Asia in 2009. “We cannot intervene at the first stage, we must let the jurisdictional organisation of the different states [take action] and when these people are condemned and found guilty then we will suspend them for life. They will never come back to football – being officials or being players, they will be banned for life,” Blatter said.

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