GERMANY: SOCCER - PROSECUTORS OFFICE INVESTIGATE MATCH FIXING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST FOOTBALL REFEREE ROBERT HOYZER.

Record ID: 230461

  • Title: GERMANY: SOCCER - PROSECUTORS OFFICE INVESTIGATE MATCH FIXING ALLEGATIONS AGAINST FOOTBALL REFEREE ROBERT HOYZER.
  • Date: 25th January 2005
  • Summary: COLOGNE, GERMANY (JANUARY 25, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. KOELN F.C. TEAM TRAINING/ F.C KOELN SIGN AND PAN TO THE FOOTBALL PITCH, WHERE THE TEAM ARE TRAINING 2. SPECTATORS 3. TEAM TRAINING ON THE PITCH GRAPHICS (JANUARY 25, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 4. WIDE OF PAGE FROM A NEWSPAPER WITH HEADLINE STATE ATTORNEY NOW INVESTIGATING BETTING-MAFIA 5. CLOSE UP OF SECTION OF THE PAGE SHOWING A PHOTOGRAPH OF AN ARTICLE ON HOYZER 6. PHOTOGRAPH OF HOYZER GIVING A PLAYER A YELLOW CARD DURING A FOOTBALL MATCH 7. CLOSE OF THE YELLOW CARD IN HOYZERS HAND 8. PHOTOGRAPH OF HOYZER POINTING AT A PLAYER DURING A MATCH 9. CLOSE OF HOYZERS FACE COLOGNE, GERMANY (JANUARY 25, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 10. KOELN F.C. TRAINING 11. SOUNDBITE (German) FC COLOGNE MANAGER ANDREAS RETTIG SAYING: No bad feelings. If one player misbehaves one cannot condemn all players. If one refereee has done something wrong one cannot denounce all referees. I have lost no respect for the guild of referees. BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY (JANUARY 25, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 12. SOUNDBITE (German) JOACHIM GEYER, SPOKESMAN OF PROSECUTORS OFFICE IN BRAUNSCHWEIG, SAYING: We are investigating whether there is sufficient suspicion for fraud. The allegation is that one or more players were manipulated. A cause for fraud would be given if this referee could have received an illegal monetary advantage by betting himself or through a third person, while suggesting that he had no influence on the outcome of the match. BERLIN, GERMANY (JANUARY 25, 2005)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 13. VARIOUS OF BETTING OFFICE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th February 2005 12:00
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  • Location: COLOGNE, BRAUNSCHWEIG AND BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA6MDWYBVIE21P04K3QU26BQZEE
  • Story Text: A German prosecutor's office is investigating
    allegations of match-fixing by a referee.



    A prosecutors office in Braunschweig has taken up an
    investigation of whether a German football referee
    manipulated match results.

    Joachim Geyer, spokesman of the prosecuting office in
    Braunschweig, said on Tuesday (January 25) that his office was
    investigating whether there was sufficient suspicion for fraud.

    Geyer said: A cause for fraud would be given if this
    referee could have received an illegal monetary advantage
    by betting himself or through a third person, while
    suggesting that he had no influence on the outcome of the match.

    Germanys Football Association (DFB) widened its
    investigation into suspected match-rigging to look at five
    more games on Monday, while a local public prosecutors
    office launched its own probe into the scandal. German referee
    Robert Hoyzer, who has denied
    allegations of match-fixing, is suspected by the DFB of
    rigging a Cup match he took charge of last August after
    betting on the result.

    The DFB said they had further suspicions over two
    second division matches and three regional league matches.

    Four of the five games were refereed by the 25-year-old
    Hoyzer, who has never taken charge of a first division game.

    The match at the centre of the allegations is the
    defeat of first division Hamburg SV by SC Paderborn in the
    German Cup on August 21, 2004.

    Hamburg took a 2-0 lead but went on to lose 4-2 after
    Hoyzer sent off striker Emile Mpenza in the first half for insulting
    him and awarded two penalties to the regional league side.

    Hamburg launched a formal appeal against the result on
    Monday, despite the DFBs insistence that replaying the match
    would be impossible. The German Cup is currently at the
    quarter-final stage.

    The two second division matches identified by the DFB
    were the games between Rot-Weiss Essen and FC Cologne and
    Ahlen versus Wacker Burghausen.

    FC Cologne's manager Andreas Rettig said on Tuesday
    that the he has not lost respect for referees as a whole despite the
    scandal, adding: I have no bad feelings. If one player
    misbehaves one cannot condemn all players. If one refereee has
    done something wrong one cannot denounce all referees.


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