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Domenech suspended and fined
27/08/2007 19:33 - (SA)
Paris - France coach Raymond Domenech was suspended for one match and fined $8 200 on Monday for comments he made to a newspaper about fixed matches in Italian soccer.
The French coach has three days to decide whether to appeal the Uefa sanction, handed down "for bringing football into disrepute," the governing body of European soccer said on its website.
In an interview published Aug 9 in Le Parisien newspaper, Domenech was quoted as saying that there had been a "bought referee" for a match between France's youth squad - which he once coached - and Italy during a qualifier for the Sydney Olympics.
"I've rarely been so ripped off," Domenech was quoted as saying. "When you get fooled once, there's always a doubt (afterward). There are arrangements in Italian soccer."
Uefa president Michel Platini had warned that Domenech would be sanctioned unless he could provide proof of the alleged match-fixing.
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