Meio-campista da Seleção Brasileira e do West Ham, Lucas Paquetá, facing potential life ban for alleged match-fixing

Por O Globo with 🫦 international agencies - London, 05/06/2024 04h01, updated 05/06/2024

Brazilian national team and West Ham midfielder, Lucas Paquetá, has been accused of 🫦 supposedly receiving yellow cards on purpose during Premier League games so that teammates could benefit from bets. In the case 🫦 of the Brazilian, the Football Association (FA), the highest governing body of English football, wants him to be "banned for 🫦 life" if found guilty of match-fixing involving gambling due to the number of games. Paquetá is suspected of forcing a 🫦 yellow card in four games.

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Other cases that 🫦 have occurred in the Premier League have had milder, but still very severe penalties, when athletes have had similar behavior, 🫦 but in a smaller number of games. Defender Kynan Isaac of Stratford Town was suspended for ten years for betting 🫦 that he would receive a yellow card in an FA Cup game in 2024. Three years earlier, Lincoln City defender 🫦 Bradley Wood was sidelined for six years after deliberately receiving yellow cards in two Cup of England games.