International Herald Tribune
2 Apr 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Two players from Maldives club Victory SC were offered bribes to lose Wednesday's AFC Cup match against Singapore's Home United, the Asian Football Confederation said.
"It has been reliably reported to AFC that two foreign players of Victory SC were approached by an unidentified man in their hotel room and offered bribes to throw away the match," the AFC said in a statement before the game.
"We take these allegations very seriously and we will launch a full investigation to find out and establish the truth," AFC president Mohamed Bin Hammam said.
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