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FIFPRO is on Wednesday hosting the ‘Preventing Match Fixing’ conference that will examine how to combat the illegal manipulation of football games with perspectives from players, government, police and betting companies.
The event is being organized by Steve Menary, leader of an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission who has conducted three years of research into match-fixing in friendlies, or non-competitive matches, with the University of Nicosia.
Menary will present a 112-page report that looks at the problem of match-fixing in friendlies and was written with the assistance of players and player unions in Malta, Cyprus and Greece, as well as EU Athletes.
The conference will also feature a presentation about FIFPRO’s Red Button app, an athlete-only mobile-phone app that gives players an effective way to report illegal approaches anonymously without compromising their security.
