Ex-accused player cried in court – Pages

During the trial, two former footballers were prosecuted, suspects of the crime, roughly rewarding Muta.

Both former players deny the allegations.

One of them starts crying in court when asked if he offered a bribe to Kenny Stamatopoulos, the AIK keeper.

The worst thing is that I did not have the opportunity to tell my version. Everyone thinks it's a joke to ruin my name, he said, adding that he had children who are active football players and who suffer from what he is suspected of.

In Sweden, they write what they want. The police had an opportunity to talk to me for two months, he said.

In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, the player called the match fixing charges "absolute skitsnack" and denied the crimes.

Big bribe

During the hearing that took place in the district court, the prosecutor Johan Lindmark published a record of a conversation between one of the old gaming centers and Stamatopoulos, where the suspect seemed to want to know whether he would play against IFK Gothenburg 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.

We claim that this crash, this mutual demand, will take place 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.

Terms and conditions

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".

The prosecutor presses the former player for transfers that took place between him and the other alleged man. It's about 300,000 crowns that the player received on his account last May.

I was looking for a house and found one that I liked. I had to pay a deposit so that XX m "borrows money, explains the former player.

He also says that he started repaying the money through various installments.

Played for millions

The story was discovered at the Swedish joint meeting between IFK Gothenburg and AIK on May 18, 2017.

The AIK goalkeeper, Kyriakos "Kenny" Stamatopoulos, gave the whistle to the management of his club after being offered a large sum of money to influence the club. 39, outcome of the match.

An accused football player has, according to the SVT Mission Review, a solid history of betting, where he played for four million crowns from January 2015 to the summer of 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.