Match-Fixing Confessions Could Affect Bans

Players and officials involved in match-fixing could receive lighter punishments by coming clean, FIFA’s head of security said Monday.

Chris Eaton wrapped up a trip to Zimbabwe, where the sport has been mired in corruption allegation, by promising that FIFA would take any confessions into consideration when deciding on the length of a ban for those found guilty of match-fixing.

“It is not an amnesty,” he said. “The fact that you come forward now may be of great assistance to what may or may not happen to you.”

Zimbabwean players have admitted they were paid to lose games in Asia in 2009 where they lost 2-0 to Jordan, 3-0 to Thailand and 6-0 to Syria.

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