Re: Evidence of Soccer Referees taking bribes in Germany last year #2

"ITALIA!!!!!!!!!!" <pencoca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1156990083.856686.182190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and what happened????? anybody go to jail, fined or snctioned????
Well??? You post this crap on here. You hate football so why do you
post here?

No true soccer fan could tolerate their sport besmirched br crooked referees
and players Fixing the outcome of so many matches and making a mockery of
the whole idea of human contest and perpetrates a huge fraud on the public.

John

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/low/football/europe/4445896.stm

Thursday, 17 November 2005, 12:26 GMT
Jail sentence for German referee

Referee Robert Hoyzer has been sentenced to two years and five months in prison
for his part in Germany's biggest match-fixing scandal. The 26-year-old admitted
fixing or trying to fix nine matches.

The prosecution recommended that Hoyzer be given a suspended sentence, but judge
Gerti Kramer opted for a custodial term. "It wasn't a youthful misdemeanour but a
serious crime," said Kramer. "He violated his duty of neutrality." Hoyzer appeared
shocked by the verdict and left the court in Berlin without speaking to waiting
reporters. He said in Tuesday's final arguments: "I'm very sorry about all the
people I lied to and cheated. I've damaged German soccer greatly."

He will remain free until his appeal is heard. "We and Mr Hoyzer are very
disappointed by the verdict. Even the prosecutors had sought a suspended sentence,"
said Hoyzer's lawyer Thomas Hermes. Dominik Marks, another referee, denied
involvement in the outcomes of four games but received a suspended sentence of one
and a half years. Ante Sapina, the Croatian who orchestrated the match-fixing for a
betting ring, was jailed for two years and 11 months. Sapina's brothers Filip, 38,
and bar-owner Milan, 40, were both given suspended sentences for aiding Ante's
criminal operation. "The threat of prison will make people think before trying to
influence a football match" German football association president, Theo Zwanziger.

Suspicions were raised when lowly Paderborn came from 2-0 down to beat former
European Cup winners SV Hamburg 4-2 last year in the German Cup. There were two
debatable penalties and a mystery sending-off in the match. According to the
indictment, Ante Sapina made more than £500,000 from Paderborn's victory. Referee
Hoyzer later admitted taking £46,000 and a flat-screen television in return for
influencing the match. Marks was accused of amassing £25,000 for his involvement in
four games.

German football association president Theo Zwanziger said he was happy with the
rulings 10 months after allegations first surfaced. "The threat of two and a half
years in prison will certainly make one or two people think before trying to
influence a football match," he said. The fraud trial has caused major embarrassment
to Germany's football establishment just eight months before the country stages the
2006 World Cup. It is not over because ex-professional Steffen Karl, formerly of
first division Borussia Dortmund and a Uefa Cup finalist, is still being tried
separately in connection with the match-rigging scam. The case of Karl, who denies
ever under-performing or seeking to lose a game, continues.

In all, 23 games were listed by prosecutor Thorsten Cloidt as suspicious. Most were
lower league games and all but two were between German sides. The exceptions were a
friendly between Hansa Rostock and Middlesbrough, and a Turkish first division match
between Galatasaray and Ankaragucu in April 2004.
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John Shocked wrote:
There is no question that there is a widespread referee corruption
problem in professional soccer.
FIFA must take action to limit the danage a corrupt referee can inflict
on the sports content of a match.,
in addition to trying to catch the referees on the take.
John

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/event/story.cfm?c_id=524&objectid=10008787

Soccer: Others accepted bribes to fix matches says shamed referee
31.01.05
by Ruth Elkins
The German referee at the centre of the football match-fixing scandal that has shocked Germany says he is about to name
colleagues
and players who also took bribes.
With tickets for next year's World Cup - which will be staged in Germany - due to go on sale on Wednesday, Theo Zwanziger,
president
of Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football association, said it was difficult to know how deeply the scandal had penetrated
the
sport.
Robert Hoyzer last week admitted that he awarded improbable penalties, sent off star players, ignored blatant fouls and allowed
contentious goals, all to please a Croatian-run betting syndicate who profited from unlikely, even miraculous, scorelines.
It is the worst match-fixing scandal in Germany since 1971, when sanctions for corruption were imposed on 53 players, two
coaches,
six officials and the clubs Arminia Bielefeld and Kickers Offenbach.
"Many more people are involved," a tearful Mr Hoyzer, 25, told the German newspaper Bild last week.
Hoyzer, who says he made more than 50,000 ($132,000) from match-fixing, said he was present when other referees were bribed to
fix
matches, and told prosecutors he had heard of similar payments to players. Police made four arrests on Friday.

In August last year, Hoyzer, a rising talent in German refereeing circles, bet that third division Paderborn would beat the
Bundesliga side SV Hamburg. The German Cup first-round game should have been a straightforward assignment for Hamburg, until
Hoyzer
sent off one of their strikers for "insulting behaviour".
Then, on a slim pretext, he awarded two match-winning penalties to Paderborn. Some reports said Hoyzer reassured the Paderborn
players of their imminent victory.
"The Hamburgers can do what they want, they don't stand a chance," he allegedly told them at halftime.
Paderborn went on to win 4-2.
Hoyzer, who has quit as a referee, confessed to manipulating at least three games. German football officials are reviewing videos
of
all 27 senior matches he has handled.
The scandal could not have come at a worse time for Germany. With just under 500 days to go until it stages the 2006 World Cup,
the
country's plans for the tournament already seem to be unravelling.
There has been uproar that only a third of the 2.9 million tickets available will be sold to ordinary fans, while Berlin's
Olympic
Stadium, revamped at a cost of 242 million, has hit the headlines after the firm that fitted it with new seats threatened to
remove
some because it hadn't been fully paid.
To avoid any taint of this weekend's fixtures, referees for all matches were switched at the last minute.
- INDEPENDENT
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John



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