Foul Play

PSSI seems to have allowed the match-fixing mafia to go unchecked within the Indonesian Football League. Winners and losers can both be manipulated. Last season, Persebaya lost, Arema won.

January 26, 2011

LONG before it began, the congress of the All-Indonesia Football Federation (PSSI) at the Hotel Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali Resort, was expected to be anything but orderly. The day before the opening, hotel security staff chased away anyone with no right to be there. Police were ­every where. Dozens of reporters were also sent away, because they could not produce the credentials permitting them to cover the congress. PSSI, headed by Nurdin Halid, i

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