PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Officials from FIFA are currently in Trinidad and Tobago carrying out investigations into match fixing allegations in the island’s top two football leagues.
This was revealed by T&T Premier Football League’s Chief Executive Officer, Yale Antoine, and Gordon Pierre, the Caledonia AIA executive member, who both confirmed on Tuesday that FIFA officials are in the country and have conducted interviews with players on the matter.
While neither official revealed their names, they explained that, due to ongoing concerns about match-fixing, they had arrived secretly to conduct investigations.
Allegations of match-fixing have rocked local football at the top-flight and tier 2 levels. However, while the matter has been raised in various quarters of the football fraternity, it has been swept under the carpet.
Back in 2023, Brian Lewis, the then-chairman of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) Gender, Race, Inclusion, and Diversity (GRID) Sports Committee, called on the T&T Football Association to address allegations of match-fixing brought to them.
That same year, then Guaya United coach Travis Mulraine also asked the T&T Football Association to investigate concerns of match-fixing, after revealing he had dismissed five players considered culprits.
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