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It came more or less from nowhere.

There were only a few hours left for the kickoff of the classic Alliance meeting between IFK Gothenburg and AIK on May 18, 2017, which revealed an attempted rigging of match.

The AIK goalkeeper, Kyriakos "Kenny" Stamatopoulos, gave the whistle and embarrassed the management of his club after offering a large sum of money to influence the outcome of the match.

Thursday morning, the trial began, during which two former footballers are accused, suspected of a crime largely remunerative by a bribe.

Big bribe

The prosecutor, Johan Lindmark, shows on a printed copy of a conversation between one of the old gambling centers and Stamatopoulos, where the suspect seemed to want to know whether he would play against IFK Göteborg or not.

In the chat, Stamatopoulos asks for a private meeting in a restaurant in Stockholm. He also asks the goalkeeper not to talk to anyone about the game.

Our assertion is that this crime, the mut demand, will be done at the end of this meeting, said prosecutor Johan Lindmark in the district court.

The match was stopped, moved to another date and a preamble started.

Spoken to often

The former player explains to the right that he has often spoken to Kenny Stamatopoulos during this period.

It was hard to leave football and I wanted to talk to Kenny.

Looking at text messages, it does not reflect all our communication. We had contacts quite often. I asked him if he had to play because he wanted to play. He knew that he had aged and the former goalkeeper was gone.

According to the player, they talked about match-fixing at the meeting, but only in general terms. Some suggestions have never been made.

XX (the other player) said that "I would not do it for two million".

Both former players deny the allegations.

I respect everyone's opinion, but the facts remain: it never happened. It's a preview. Absolutely crazy. It's amazing that a regular conversation with a partner can lead to something like this and it makes me so angry, told Dagens Nyheter last week one of the old mutilated football players.

Played for millions

According to SVT's mission, an accused football player has a long history of betting, where he played for four million crowns from January 2015 to summer 2018.

The other means that the case as such has ended in some shimmer because of the Swedish Football Federation's fierce fight against match-fixing.

They need a high-profile case, and then they turn to me, he told DN.