FIFA Updates

BEIJING (AP)—Chinese police have arrested three football referees on suspicion
of match-fixing, including one official who worked at the 2002 World Cup in
South Korea and Japan, local media reported Wednesday.

The reports listed Lu Jun, who had officiated in two World Cup matches,
several Asian Football Confederation games and more than 200 Chinese league
matches before retiring in 2005, as being among those detained for taking
bribes.

The others reportedly detained were Huang Junjie, a nominee last year for
the China Super League’s best referee award, and Zhou Weixin, who retired in
2004 after being given an eight-game suspension by the national association for
a bad call.

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