Canadian Soccer League – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

12JulJuly 12, 2024

The Of Course World of Match-Fixing

Suspicious games, match-fixing and corruption from around the world. "Yeah, there's tons of big events which are being fixed.Especially now, lately the trend is very huge events in e-sports as well. Because there is no punition. You can just fix and not get punished." Interview with match-fixer, July 2024. The list is long and varied. It is compiled by Francesco Baranca - the brilliant, controversial and brilliantly controversial sports gambling monitor - and the team here at the University of New Haven....

Canada’s Shame

The success of Toronto FC aside, Canadian soccer remains an abject embarrassment — not because of quality of play, but because European police and sports officials say a lower-level Canadian league remains a hot spot of corruption and match-fixing. “You are supposed to be honest people,” Kee, a Chinese-Malaysian bookie who runs an illegal gambling site in Kuala Lumpur, said last year. “How can you be honest when so many fixed soccer games are going on in your country?” These accusations...

King of the Mediocre

On the bright side, he has never actually been convicted of fraud, racketeering or money laundering. He has also never been arrested for corruption. No has ever caught him on hidden camera offering bribes or election gifts. Ummmm... well, thats about it really. The news that Canada's own Victor Montagliani was elected president of CONCACAF, the continental confederation in FIFA representing North, Central America and the Caribbean, is another underwhelming sign of the lack of reform inside FIFA. For international readers here...