Accra - sink now the Africa Cup of Nations in international Wettsumpf ...?
Reinhard Fabisch (57) is stunned. The German coach of Benin's national team announced on Thursday a bribery attempt. Two days before the first game of his troops, he was made an offer for match fixing!
"As an African team came into our hotel and wanted to talk quietly with me in private. It turned out that it was someone from a Wettorganisation from Singapore, "said Fabisch.
The stranger wanted to know from Fabisch dubious whether he had at least two players on the team a relationship of trust to be able to take with them an agreement to game manipulation. The best were the goalkeeper and a defender.
Fabisch: "He came with a specific price. A penalty against us it was worth 20,000 U.S. dollars. "Fabisch Although the" Offer "energetically declined, the Wettpate rang again the next day with him through - without success. Fabisch dryly: "I asked him if he wanted to ruin our sport and launched."
Is the "unbelievable incident" (Fabisch) only one individual in the tournament? EXPRESS listened to in Ghana. Tenor: The African Cup is to be clean - and stay. "Such an experience like Fabisch I have not done here," said Cameroon coach Otto Pfister (70), but surprisingly adds: "In Asia, was such an operation a few years ago alive and well."
Anthony Baffoe (42), team manager of the Ghana national team: "The tournament runs great, it covered a lot of goals. But the grass height at the opening game was not okay. By any Bestechungsvorwürden or rumors I have heard nothing. "
Winnie Schaefer, Pfister's predecessor in Cameroon (2001-2004), which is not surprising. "I was three years down there, never in that time something has happened. One should not exaggerate the whole thing now. For example, a bribery allegation is not typical for Africa. "
