{"id":65437,"date":"2018-11-29T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65437"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:14:47","slug":"former-super-eagles-midfielder-facing-jail-term-for-alleged-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=65437","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Eagles midfielder facing jail term for alleged match-fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Super Eagles player, Dickson Etuhu, will go on trial in a Swedish court on Thursday, to face a charge of match-fixing, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n

Etuhu played at the 2010 World Cup for Nigeria and had a lengthy career in England for Manchester City, Preston North End, Norwich, Sunderland, Fulham and Blackburn Rovers, before moving to play in Sweden.<\/p>\n

He is charged with trying to bribe a goalkeeper to fix the result of a league match between his former side, Stockholm\u2019s AIK and IFK Gothenburg.<\/p>\n

The game was due to be played on May 18, 2017, but was postponed after goalkeeper Kenny Stamatopoulos told AIK he had been approached by Etuhu and another man with a view to fixing the game.<\/p>\n

Etuhu has said his former teammate must have misunderstood the conversation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI respect everyone\u2019s opinion, but the facts remain the same \u2013 it never happened \u2026 It\u2019s unbelievable that an ordinary conversation with a friend can lead to something like this,\u201d Etuhu told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.<\/p>\n

The offence of gross bribery carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Super Eagles player, Dickson Etuhu, will go on trial in a Swedish court on Thursday, to face a charge of match-fixing, Reuters reports. Etuhu played at the 2010 World Cup for Nigeria and had a lengthy career in England for Manchester City, Preston North End, Norwich, Sunderland, Fulham and Blackburn Rovers, before moving to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8367,8368],"class_list":["post-65437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dickson-etuhu","tag-match-fixing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}