Saturday, February 12, 2011

FIFA Decided to Launch Investigation on Betting Allegations in Friendly Matches in Turkey

ZURICH, Switzerland – BBC reports that FIFA has decided to launch an investigation on account the alleged betting charges in the most recent friendly fixtures of Latvia-Bolivia and Estonia-Bulgaria in Turkey; which ended up with total seven goals all through penalties awarded by referees supervising the matches. 

The match between Bulgaria and Estonia was played Turkish resort of Antalya on Wednesday. 

Head of the referees' commission of the Hungarian football association, Laszlo Vagner, told the media that Hungarian referee Kolos Lengyel and the two Hungarian assistant referees have been suspended, who supervised the match between Bulgaria and Estonia. 

Vagner said further that the named officials told him they had been called to supervise at a youth tournament in Antalya. On arrival there they were then requested to officiate Bulgaria-Estonia match and they felt obliged to agree.

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