SKorea threatens to shut soccer league over fixing

[unreal.livejournal.com]

The South Korean government has threatened to shut down its professional soccer league if more K-League teams are involved in the match-fixing scandal.

The Sports Ministry said Friday that Vice Minister Park Sun-kyoo issued the warning in a meeting with soccer officials the previous day.

The ministry cited Park as saying it may eliminate a soccer club from the K-League if its players are found to have received kickbacks in return for attempting to rig the results of games. Park says the entire K-League would be closed down if its determined that several teams are linked to the match-fixing scandal.

Prosecutors last month indicted 14 people, including 10 K-League players, in the ongoing scandal.

A former K-League player, who allegedly worked as a broker, was found dead in an apparent suicide in May.

Source: usatoday

Comments

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

reminds me of Serie A

[myharu.livejournal.com]

Yeah this doesn't sound good at all....and hi gigi :3...what's Serie A btw?

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

Serie A is the italian soccer league. it's been plagued with match fixing even the major clubs. a few years ago some major clubs were severely punished for it one was even demoted to a lower league.

[myharu.livejournal.com]

This does not surprise since it's the Italian league

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

yeah very stereotypical

[myharu.livejournal.com]

Yeah I was hoping to get someone random to reply in defense of the itailian league but I forgot this was about Korea so I guess I failed xD

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

no 1 curr apparently. I can just keep on saying shit and no one will defend. speaking of which it's my least fav league too

[myharu.livejournal.com]

Your statement does not surprise me, why are we still talking her?XD

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

because we're cool

[tofucakes.livejournal.com]

good, it's a fucking disgrace

[newlines.livejournal.com]

omg wae

and all i can think of were the starcraft match fixing scandal a while ago -_______-''