Asiagate scandal

Former Asiagate Investigating Committee chairman, Ndumiso Gumede says the body has been vindicated following the imposition of a life ban on player agent, Kudzanai (Kudzi) Shaba by Fifa for his role in the football betting scandal.
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By Petros Kausiyo Former ZIFA programmes officer Jonathan Musavengana is set to make history for the wrong reasons, with the tall administrator facing a life ban by FIFA for his role in match-fixing scams in which he has virtually become…
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By Terry Steans The sporting world is facing an unprecedented crisis. Thanks to globalisation — a phenomenon never previously seen — the sports gambling markets and organised crime have turned football into a cash cow and are now…
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By Austin Karonga Former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya has declined to comment on her involvement in the latest Zimbabwe match-fixing scandal, insisting she is currently working with international law enforcement agents to trap…
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By Steve Vickers The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has lifted all of the remaining match-fixing bans from the so-called "Asiagate" scandal. 85 players and officials were banned for activities around national team games…
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By Eddie Chikamhi ZIFA president Phillip Chiyangwa wants his board to find immediate closure to the long raging Asiagate saga and will deliberate on reviewing bans and other sanctions that were imposed on various players and officials…
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Former Dynamos captain Guthrie Zhokinyi says he is keen to re-join the Glamour Boys after he was cleared to play following his life ban for his involvement in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal.
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HARARE - Sunday Chidzambwa says he felt like a prisoner on death row, for the three years he carried the Asiagate ban load on his shoulders, and is relishing the freedom he has been given and will try to use it to make another mark on the…
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South African lawyers representing Zimbabwe international footballer Thomas Sweswe have accused Zifa of delinquency and violating the player’s rights in the Asiagate appeal process that remains stalled more than one-and-a-half years after…
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ZIFA vice-president Ndumiso Gumede has sensationally accused Fifa of “acting in bad faith’’ and claims that they could have long closed the Asiagate match-fixing saga had the world soccer governing body been “totally supportive’’ of the…
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