Nigeria’s ex-international

Dickson Etuhu Banned From Football Over Match-Fixing

Dickson Etuhu Banned From Football Over Match-Fixing

Nigeria’s ex-international, Dickson Etuhu has been banned from football in Sweden for five years over match-fixing.

Etuhu, who had played Manchester City, Preston, Sunderland and Fulham, was banned after being found guilty.

In November the Nigeria international was found guilty of attempting to fix a match between IFK Gothenburg and AIK in 2017. Etuhu was fined and ordered to serve a period of probation but avoided a prison sentence, with his lawyers still planning to take his case to Sweden’s supreme court.

However, the Swedish Football Association has now taken action to ban the 37-year-old Etuhu and the former IFK …