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Barcelona's Luis Suarez (R) fights for the ball against Eibar's Asier Riesgo during their Spanish first division soccer match at Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, October 25, 2015. Photo: Courtesy
The shocking testimony of previously unheard of Mauritian forward Cheikh Saad rocked Spanish football this week with fears that match-fixing is running wild in the country's lower divisions.
"Sport's big problem is not doping, but the fixing of matches linked to illegal betting patterns," says Jose Luis Perez Trivino, a legal expert on the subject and president of the Spanish association for quality ethics in sport.
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