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Blatter threatens life bans

SoccerNews in World Cup 5 Jul 2011

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter said any player or official who is found guilty of match-fixing will be banned for life.

Blatter was speaking on a visit to Zimbabwe, a country that has been blighted by controversy over the past few years.

In 2009, a number of national team players, including captain Method Mwanjali, told an inquiry by the Zimbabwe FA that they were paid to lose matches during a tour of Asia.

As a result ZIFA chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya was suspended from duty.

The FIFA president had stern words for those involved in match-fixing scandals, but stressed that FIFA would only intervene when all legal processes were completed.

“We must let the jurisdictional organisation of the different states, and when these people are condemned and found guilty, then we will suspend them for life, and they will never come back to football, being officials or being players. Banned for life,” Blatter said.

Blatter also promised to help improve the state of football in Zimbabwe.

“We can help a lot, we can help in own problems you have, even in the problem you evoked concerning the recapitalisation of your federation, all this we can do,” Blatter said.

“We can send you the best coaches, referees, we can give you money, but homework must be done by yourselves, what we cannot do is the homework, so it has to be said that help yourself and God will help you.”

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