Former Afghan booters accuse federation president of match-fixing

Several former Afghanistan players have accused the country’s football federation’s president Mohammad Kargar of fixing two matches of the men’s national team in 2008, reports the Guardian.

Former Afghanistan captain Djelaludin Sharityar and goalkeeper Aimal Gerowal are among those to have accused Kargar- who also had two spells as the team’s coach.

They accused Kargar of working in collaboration with match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal and Dan Tan to arrange the results of games against Nepal and Sierra Leone at the Merdeka tournament in 2008.

Several players who were part of the Afghanistan squad have alleged that Kargar was also involved in a plot with Perumal and his associate Tan in exchange for each player being paid $2,500 at the friendly tournament in Malaysia.

Sharityar and three other Germany-based players in the squad said they refused to take part in the alleged fix and the…