Siasia coached national team of
Nigeria between 2010-2011 and for a second spell in 2016 but FIFA did not
reveal the game of matches involved and he also coached the country's
Under-20 and Under-23 sides.
"The
Ethics Committee has found Mr Siasia, a former official of the Nigeria Football
Federation, guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation
to the manipulation of matches in violation of the Fifa Code of Ethics,"
said a Fifa statement.
Siasia, who has yet to comment, was
banned "for life from all football-related activities (administrative,
sports or any other) at both national and international level. In addition, a
fine in the amount of CHF 50,000 (US$50,000) has been imposed on Mr
Siasia."
The sanction stems from an ongoing
'large-scale investigation' Fifa is conducting into the behaviour of Wilson Raj
Perumal, a convicted match-fixer from Singapore.
He
is the third African to be banned by Fifa for his links to Perumal after former Sierra Leone FA
official Abu Bakarr Kabba and former Botswana FA official
Mooketsi Kgotlele were suspended in July for five years and for
life respectively.
A former international, Siasia won
the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations with Nigeria, for whom he played over 50 times
while scoring 16 goals.
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