China bans 43 soccer players and officials for life over match-fixing
Listen to the article BEIJING: The Chinese Football Association has banned 38 footballers and five club executives for life following a two-year investigation into match-fixing and gambling. The move is part of a wider crackdown on corruption in one of China’s most popular sports. The investigation revealed that 120 matches had been fixed, with 41 football clubs involved in the scandal. Zhang Xiaopeng, a senior official of the Ministry of Public Security, shared these findings during a press conference in Dalian, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The report did not say whether all the matches were in China.


