24 Apr, 2020 @ 12:48
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BREAKING: Football match fixers in Spain jailed

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NINE people have been jailed in Spain for colluding to fix the result of football matches.

It is the first time anyone has been sentenced to prison in the country for match fixing.

Those involved are former football executives, players, and businessmen.

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OSASUNA: Club was at centre of match fixing.

The case hinged on two vital matches at the end of the 2013-14 season in which Osasuna’s executives paid two Real Betis players to influence the results.

This morning, a court in Navarra issued a sentence which considered it proven that former Osasuna executives paid Antonio Amaya and Xabier Torres, who played for Betis at the time, to encourage them to beat Real Valladolid in the penultimate match of the season.

They were then to lose against Osasuna in the last game.

Betis had already been relegated so had nothing to play for, but Valladolid and Osasuna were both battling to fight the drop and stay in the lucrative first division.

Former Osasuna executive Angel Vizcay was jailed for eight years and eight months, while Amaya and Torres received sentences of one year each. The sentence can be appealed.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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