HK jails mainland player for fixing match

By Jane Chen | 15:15 UTC+8 May 21, 2010 |

Online Edition

A HONG Kong court yesterday jailed a football player from Chinese mainland for 10 months for trying to rig a top division football match in Hong Kong last year.

But the mastermind behind the match fixing is still at large, today's China News Service cited Hong Kong Ming Pao as saying.

Yu Yang, a 27-year-old former defender for Happy Valley who was cut in January, was for the offense of offering advantage to an agent. Asked by mainland gambling syndicates to rig the outcome of the match, he had paid a fellow player for helping to fix a First Division match between Happy Valley and Fourway Rangers on October 3, the court said.

But the attempt was aborted as a Fourway Rangers player refused to cooperate and the match finished with Fourway Rangers' 2-0 victory over Happy Valley.

In Hong Kong's last major match-fixing scandal, six Hong Kong players were jailed and banned for life for conspiring to throw a match against Thailand during World Cup qualifying in 1998.

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HK jails mainland player for fixing match

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