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01-29-2005, 10:32 AM
A distressing report
FRANKFURT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - German football chiefs are not ruling out the involvement of players in the country's match-fixing scandal.
'It's not something you can exclude,' German Football Association (DFB) co-president Theo Zwanziger told the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper when asked if players could have been involved.
'That's something that causes me great pain.'
Berlin-based referee Robert Hoyzer has admitted that DFB allegations he rigged matches after betting on them are essentially true.
Investigations are concentrating on a first round Cup tie, two second division games and three others from the regional league but the country's Bundesliga chief warned that the scandal could yet draw in matches played at the highest level.
'I don't want to exclude the possibility of an attempt being made there (in the first division),' Bundesliga president Werner Hackmann said in an interview with Hamburg 1 television.
'Naturally, it's more difficult to achieve something like that when you have a refereeing observer and TV cameras there.'
The 25-year-old Hoyzer said on Thursday that more people in football were involved and said that he had profited by a five-figure sum.
Public prosecutors are investi
gating alleged links with Croatian gamblers.
FRANKFURT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - German football chiefs are not ruling out the involvement of players in the country's match-fixing scandal.
'It's not something you can exclude,' German Football Association (DFB) co-president Theo Zwanziger told the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper when asked if players could have been involved.
'That's something that causes me great pain.'
Berlin-based referee Robert Hoyzer has admitted that DFB allegations he rigged matches after betting on them are essentially true.
Investigations are concentrating on a first round Cup tie, two second division games and three others from the regional league but the country's Bundesliga chief warned that the scandal could yet draw in matches played at the highest level.
'I don't want to exclude the possibility of an attempt being made there (in the first division),' Bundesliga president Werner Hackmann said in an interview with Hamburg 1 television.
'Naturally, it's more difficult to achieve something like that when you have a refereeing observer and TV cameras there.'
The 25-year-old Hoyzer said on Thursday that more people in football were involved and said that he had profited by a five-figure sum.
Public prosecutors are investi
gating alleged links with Croatian gamblers.