Footballs handed life bans for international match fixing
By Alois Xaba
Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has handed life bans to 13 footballers and officials from the sport and 80 others have been suspended after being found guilty of match fixing.
A committee led by retired High Court judge Ahmed Ibrahim which investigated allegations national team players and officials took cash payments from Asian betting syndicates between 2007 and 2009 to lose matches.
ZIFA board, Justice Ibrahim said: “My committee has just completed a task which it embarked on about 11 months ago. It has been a tortuous, stressful period in our lives and we have been operating with virtually no resources.
“We have been maligned and some of our members have been libelled and received virtually no co-operation in securing documentation to effectively carry o...