Football
SFA bans Nigerian international midfielder over match fixing
The Swedish Football Association have hit Nigerian International midfielder Dickson Etuhu with a five-year football ban for his involvement in a 2017 match-fixing scandal,National Daily learnt.
The ban will run till April 13, 2025 and will prevent Etuhu from participating in any football related activity in Sweden.
The former Fulham & Mancity man was found guilty in court last November. The offence involved a match between his Stockholm based team AIK and IFK Göteborg in the Allsvenskan.
Etuhu was found guilty of offering money to teammate Kyriakos Stamatopoulos, who was AIK’s back-up goalkeeper at the time, to allow Göteborg to win.
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