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Scandal: European Championship qualification also affected

Wettskandal: Auch EM-Qualifikation betroffenScandal: Qualification of the EM 2008 affected © SID-IMAGES/Getty Images /.

In the biggest scandal of in European football history, apparently also qualify for the European Championship final round is affected in Austria and the Switzerland 2008.


Bochum (SID) - in the biggest scandal of in European football history is affected in Austria and the Switzerland apparently also qualify for the European Championship finals 2008. The alleged betting patent Marijo C. on the tenth day of the hearing before the 12 Criminal Division of the District Court Bochum testified that the 4-0-Norway against Malta victory was manipulated in June 2007.


He had met before the game with at least three Maltese players in a hotel in Oslo, said C.. "I would have rather had a 5-0, but the players had agreed to already with each other," stated C.. The Croat had traveled after consultation with ante Sapina to Oslo. Sapina sitting in the dock as C. in Bochum. A multi-year prison sentence is two.


Thus, the possible manipulation by the betting fraud is now also A participant at the European level. Previously was known, that League and Cup matches in the senior and junior range across Europe as well as Champions League games and the World Cup qualifiers were may have been manipulated.