France Togo Info

Tupac

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Found this on another site...............take it for what it is worth, thought it was interesting to post:



Ok I'm not taking much from what I just found, but it can very well be true!
France are limping and Zidane and Abidal are sitting the Togo game out, I have also seen something like this pre World Cup where an article was written discussing these types of political situations and how FIFA should keep teams in these political circles seperated.
I wouldn't dismiss any of it, even tho its hard to swallow, it happens, and in soccer it happens alot.

Here is what I am talking about!

Togo's external debt amounts to approximately $ 1,400,000,000 , with 78.95% of the overall debt belonging to it's former colonial power France.

There is solid information that indicates a recent meeting (yesterday), between Togo's finance minister Kossi Assimaidou met with French Finance minister Francis Mer in Lome.

Apparently, they've been discussing the arrangement of a 3-0 French victory, in order to guarantee French qualification to the next round. As part of the deal, France will renegotiate the current debt and interest rate. Apparently there will be a 30% reduction in the overall debt and the interest rate will be anulled in return for the arranged game
 

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Interesting to say the least. But I highly doubt that such a "fix" would be allowed to occur on the international stage where the whole world would be watching. In smaller tourney, maybe.....

The fact remains, if there's such a fix that is brewing to take place in tomorrow's match, not only will the whole football staff of of both countries including players and coaches on both sides be involved, the FIFA organization and the refs will be on it as well.

I'm not saying that it's absolutely impossible, but on such an international stage, I think it's extremely difficult to fix a match to make sure France wins by 3.

I think the fact that there's even a rumor about this should be sufficient to conclude that there will be no fixing. Seriously, IF there was such a fix, would the whole gambling world and joe smoe's know about it and find what's going on so easily on the internet? :nono:

Now this is not to say that France doesn't win 3-0 tomorrow. They very well may, fix or no fix. But this a French team that has scored only 1 goal in its past two WC participations. Suddenly they're going to win by 3?

I admit that with all the internal bullshit within the Togo camp, they are not the brightest nor the best club by far. However, they have been running with teams so far in their group and both wins by the Swiss and S.Korea were far from being easy.

I say no fix.

GL though if you decide to wager on this match. :SIB
 
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