Lifetime disqualification for anyone who fails to report rigged sporting events. In fact, it was a joke. The general secretary of UEFA, Gianni Infantino, had thundered menacingly in the afternoon: “UEFA has already disqualified for life two referees for not reporting a proposal for corruption. With the new rules, all the other components of football also risk the same. Our disciplinary bodies will be able to cooperate more closely with the police and political authorities in case of suspicions".
After that, the body that controls international football was forced to make the most sensational denials. And in a somewhat embarrassed press release, he explained that “the new disciplinary rules, which will be published on July XNUMXst, do not include any provision of life-time disqualification for match-fixing. The rules stipulate that any person linked to UEFA rules and regulations is obliged to report any approaches they may have suffered from potential fraudsters. Any sanctions in this regard are not specified in the regulations".
However, what Infantino had said about the clubs sanctioned at the end of any competition is confirmed: the offending matches cannot be replayed, but “obviously if a club is found guilty of corruption, the trophy can be removed afterwards. If the corruption for a Champions League group match occurred after the aforementioned stage, the offending club would be excluded and replaced by the team below it in the table in the knockout matches.
