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September 3, 2019
FormerSuper Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia said he had lodged an appeal against his lifeban from the game by world football governing body, FIFA.
Siasia wasbanned for life from the game, following a match-fixing probe by FIFA.
Siasia,who spoke in Abuja through his associate, Opukiri Jones-Ere, said his lawyershad submitted an appeal against the ban to the Court of Arbitration for SportCAS.
On August16th, FIFA said in a statement said that the adjudicatory chamber of itsindependent ethics committee found the 51-year-old Siasia guilty.
He was“guilty of having accepted that he will receive bribes in relation tomanipulation of matches in violation of FIFA Code of Ethics.