{"id":49285,"date":"2021-06-21T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=49285"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:37:36","slug":"cas-reduces-match-fixing-ban-for-former-super-eagles-coach-samson-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/06\/21\/cas-reduces-match-fixing-ban-for-former-super-eagles-coach-samson-siasia\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS reduces match-fixing ban for former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia\u2019s life-ban from football for bribery has been reduced to five years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old was initially sanctioned in 2019 by Fifa for agreeing to \u201creceive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siasia appealed against the ban with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/20\/fifa-president-infantino-to-give-verdict-on-super-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">football\u2019s governing body<\/a> and CAS as he denied the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>CAS \u201cdetermined the imposition of a life ban to be disproportionate for a first offence which was committed passively and which had not had an adverse or immediate effect on football stakeholders, and that a five-year ban would still achieve the envisaged aim of punishing the infringement committed by Mr Siasia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ban has been backdated to start on August 16, 2019 as the court explained the background to the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2010, a match fixer tried to involve Mr Siasia as a coach of a club under his strict instructions,\u201d CAS revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the promise of employment benefits, Mr Siasia would have had to always field several players under the control of the match-fixer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negotiations between the match fixer and Mr Siasia in relation to the conditions of employment were conducted by email over a period of two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, the club did not accept or could not afford Mr Siasia\u2019s requests and the negotiations ended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court also cancelled a fine of CHF 50,000 (US$50,000) that had also been part of the sanctions imposed by Fifa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Cas) acknowledged the need for sanctions to be sufficiently high enough to eradicate bribery and especially match-fixing in football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the Panel considered in the particular circumstances of this matter that it would be inappropriate and excessive to impose a financial sanction in addition to the five-year ban, since the ban sanction already incorporated a financial punishment in eliminating football as a source of revenue for Mr Siasia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd considering that Mr Siasia had not obtained any gain or pecuniary benefit from his unethical behaviour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A former international, Siasia won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria and played in their maiden World Cup appearance later that same year. He played over 50 times for his country while scoring 16 goals.<\/p>\n<p>As a coach he led his country\u2019s under-20 and under-23 sides to continental success in 2005 and 2015 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>He also guided the under-20\u2019s to a runners-up finish at the 2005 World Youth Championships (as it was known at the time) in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Siasia is the most decorated African football coach at the Olympics, winning silver at the Beijing Games in 2008 and bronze at the 2016 Games in Rio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia\u2019s life-ban from football for bribery has been reduced to five years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS. 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