FIFA – AfricaCelebrities.Com https://africacelebrities.com Breaking News, Daily Original News Reporting and Analysis Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:12:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 https://i0.wp.com/africacelebrities.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-ICON.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 FIFA – AfricaCelebrities.Com https://africacelebrities.com 32 32 165505648 Siasia Rejects FIFA Findings and Life Ban https://africacelebrities.com/2019/08/16/siasia-rejects-fifa-findings-and-life-ban/ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:12:46 +0000 https://africacelebrities.com/?p=148329 Samson Siasia has angrily rejected FIFA’s findings against him which culminated in a lifetime ban. He was accused of involvement in match-fixing. Siasia said he was never granted an opportunity to defend himself. Thus he was shocked to hear from both traditional and internet media of a life ban from the world football governing body. […]

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Samson Siasia has angrily rejected FIFA’s findings against him which culminated in a lifetime ban. He was accused of involvement in match-fixing.

Siasia said he was never granted an opportunity to defend himself. Thus he was shocked to hear from both traditional and internet media of a life ban from the world football governing body.

Africancelebrities.com is keenly following development to report the outcome of an appeal Samson Siasia, should he decide to stage one.

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JUST IN: FIFA Bans Nigeria’s Siasia For Life https://africacelebrities.com/2019/08/16/__trashed-10/ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:52:11 +0000 https://africacelebrities.com/?p=148264 Former Nigeria’s soccer star, Samson Siasia, has been handed a lifetime ban by FIFA. The former footballer was found guilty of match-fixing by the world’s football governing body. Siasia, who had two stints as the Super Eagles coach was also fined a whooping $50,000 for the offence. He is alleged to have accepted bribes to […]

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Former Nigeria’s soccer star, Samson Siasia, has been handed a lifetime ban by FIFA. The former footballer was found guilty of match-fixing by the world’s football governing body.

Siasia, who had two stints as the Super Eagles coach was also fined a whooping $50,000 for the offence. He is alleged to have accepted bribes to fix matches his country played in.

He is the latest African football personality to fall from grace as FIFA wields its power to ban people it deems dangerous to football.

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