The Football League has filed a complaint with the National Police Center for Sports Integrity and Gambling (CENPIDA) for the alleged attempt to fix a Girona match, when it played in the Second Division, according to player Aday Benítez. He assured in the program 'El Bar de Sique' of the Ser that they had offered him 50.000 euros for letting himself be won.
“In football there were briefcases, bonuses from behind… They have personally offered me and I have not accepted them. He offered me about 50.000 euros for letting me lose (sic). It was absurd to accept because that year we were promoted to the First Division. Ours was in a league game. I wasn't going to stain the season because of a league game", said the footballer.
The player explained how to make these traps. “They contact a player, this player is the link, take the people you trust in a locker room… You only have to take three, with which to compress a goalkeeper, a central defender and the striker, you have it half done. But you can't just buy three players, obviously."
Aday Benítez spoke about another case that resulted from possible rigging. «And then he also experienced situations in another club, in Tenerife, a situation that I cannot corroborate because I was not among those players, but the last league game we did not use options to enter the playoffs, Sporting did, we were going to The players that we hadn't been playing played and in the end the ones that played regularly ended up playing. And we lost 3-1 with goals... but I can't confirm it, I can never confirm it because I wasn't there”.
“But it seemed very strange to me that players who had played throughout the year played, we did not risk anything and they had also told us that we were going to play the ones who played the least. The last or penultimate day changed it."
After these words, La Liga issued a note stating that it is going to denounce the facts. “LaLiga has filed a complaint with the National Police Center for Integrity in Sports and Gambling (CENPIDA) after the statements by ex-soccer player Francisco Aday Benitez, in which he states that they would have received 50.000 euros for losing a football match when it was remaining a day for the promotion of his team to the First Division”.
“The LaLiga Integrity and Security area has as one of its objectives the prevention, detection and reporting of any conduct that infringes fair play and could adulterate the competition. The predetermination of results is a crime, as well as accrediting the sole intention of fixing the proposal.
