A Ghanaian soccer player who was hailed as a hero inward July for taking a unilateral tie-up against match-fixing has now been supercharged with match-fixing.

Inter Allies’ protector Hashmin Musah scored deuce calculated have goals during his team’s 7-0 drubbing past Ashanti Gold inward Ghana’s top off tier up soccer league.

Video footage from the outre friction match went viral and was reported by media across the globe, spell Musah was lauded for seemingly disrupting an alleged plot to set the game.

With 12 transactions left to caper and the scotch at 5-0 to Ashanti Gold, Musah scored twice in his have network inward the infinite of quadruplet minutes.

Lame Duck

Post-match, he claimed his actions had foiled a conspiracy among players inward both teams who had pre-arranged the scoreline at 5-1 for the do good of a shadowy play syndicate.

It was the last gamy of the season – a lame duck that was ripe for the prepare because the final result would non significantly castrate the finishing positions of the teams. Inter Allies was undersurface of the league and had already been relegated. Ashanti Gold was second, but mathematically could non match leader Accra Hearts of Oak.

I heard it inwards our hotel that a play had been made for a right scoreline of 5 goals to 1 against my gild Inter Allies,” the participant told Ghanian media. “I decided to spoilage that wager because I don’t condone betting.

“After the game, my proficient team commended me for spoiling the bet they had staked,” he claimed. “I promised my coach that if he allows me to toy from the bench, I testament go bad the bet. And after the game, my team up congratulated me.”

His squad later officially condemned his actions.

Eighteen Players Charged

But now Musah faces a potentiality life-time banning from the sport. He is single of 18 players and sise officials crosswise both teams to live supercharged with a variety of offenses. That’s following an investigation past the Gold Coast Football Association (GFA). Charges include match-fixing and bringing the game into disrepute.

Also in red-hot irrigate are Inter Allies’ caput handler and chair of Ashanti Gold, Kwaku Frimpong.

Frimpong told BBC Sport Africa he believes the fault lies with the rogue Allies guardian kinda than his team, adding that half-baked scorelines were non unusual for Ashanti Gold.

We have got not through anything speculative because we e'er vanquish people 4-0, 5-0 or 5-4,” he explained. “We scramble them quintet and their defender scored deuce himself. I consider they make to place the find fault on the guy who scored himself, because it’s unprecedented.

“So why do we hold to pick Ashanti Gold? This is jealousy and they simply need to destroy my name. I feature not talked to any prexy or any club. We experience done nothing.”

A 2018 infotainment by the journalist Anas Aremeyaw genus Anas revealed widespread degeneracy inward Ghanaian soccer. Anas concerned an sinful 77 Ghanese referees and 14 GFA officials inwards various acts of corruption, leading to widespread dismissals.

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