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There’s a need to protect players in alleged match-fixing: SAPFU

He’s revealed that he’s been approached on more than one occasion by players who had confirmed to him that they were being approached to throw away matches in the favour of other clubs. announced that they were taking matters related to these allegations to the police but there’s still no update on the way forward.

Whenever there are allegations around bribery and corruption in football, the most affected stakeholders are the match officials and the players but never the club officials. And Gaoshubelwe says this also needs to be addressed.gets ready to implement its regulations on the status and transfer of players next month, Gaoshubelwe has welcomed the new changes in global football.

Earlier this week, FIFA confirmed that they have set aside $16m for the fund up to 2022, split into yearly allocations. Another $5m has also been allocated for players affected between July 2015 and June 2020. Gaoshubelwe says this also helps some of the players locally who haven’t been [aid by their clubs following the awards of the Dispute Resolution Chamber .

 

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