Zimbabwe Ex-Soccer Association Chief Charged With Fixing Team’s Matches
Zimbabwe’s former football association chief executive officer, Henrietta Rushwaya, was charged with bribery, corruption and match fixing related to unsanctioned national team games in Asia.
Rushwaya was released on $500 bail, Magistrate Anita Tshuma said today in Harare, the capital.
Rushwaya, who left the organization in 2010, denied wrongdoing. “It is not the first time the case has been brought before the courts,” she told reporters. “It is nice the case has started.”
The Zimbabwe Football Association last week suspended 82 players from representing the country after probing alleged match fixing of games against Thailand and Syria in 2008. The southern African nation’s team lost 6-0 to Syria and 3-0 to Thailand.
Among those suspended are Ovidy Karuru, a player for U.S. Boulogne, a team in France’s second division, and South African based players including Thomas Sweswe and Willard Katsande of Johannesburg’s Kaizer Chiefs.
Zimbabwe has plummeted down FIFA’s ranking of national teams, falling out of the top 100 in a Jan. 18 assessment after dropping 28 places to 98th in December.
To contact the reporter on this story: Godfrey Marawanyika in Johannesburg at gmarawanyika@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at asguazzin@bloomberg.net
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