The chairman of an Algerian football club was banned from the sport for life on Tuesday after saying on television match-fixing was widespread and admitting he too had done it.
Last month, Abdelmadjid Yahi of US Chaouia blamed his club’s relegation to the third division on an “arrangement” between two adversaries, and said such fixing was “widely known” in the sport.
He then said that he had himself indulged in match-fixing in the past.
Yahi, who had been chairman of US Chaouia for nearly 25 years, was hit by the country’s footballing authorities on Tuesday with a “lifetime ban on any activity relating to football”, the professional league’s website said.
He was also fined 200,000 dinars ($1,825 or 1,600 euros).
“The party concerned has admitted arranging fixtures with payments made out of his own pocket,” the website said of Yahi.
“Such behaviour is the equivalent of an act of corruption that affects the integrity of competitive football,” and is banned under “the rules of the game and by the disciplinary code of the Algerian Football Federation,” it said.
Algerian Club Boss Banned For Match-Fixing
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