{"id":438545,"date":"2011-06-09T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/09\/liverpool-cancel-korea-tour-due-to-k-league-match-fixing-scandal-report\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:18:00","slug":"liverpool-cancel-korea-tour-due-to-k-league-match-fixing-scandal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/liverpool-cancel-korea-tour-due-to-k-league-match-fixing-scandal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool cancel Korea tour due to K-League match-fixing scandal &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Ben Somerford<\/h3>\n<h4>9 Jun 2011 07:18:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"78.5397196262\">\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liverpool Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/109100\/109195_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liverpool Logo<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span>Liverpool have cancelled the South Korean leg of their Far-East pre-season tour due to \u201cmitigating circumstances\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Reds had announced in April they would be playing games in China, Malaysia and Korea during July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, the club have now decided to cancel their July 19 date against Korean champions FC Seoul in the capital, which was to be the final match of the tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The club said on their official website the decision was due to mitigating circumstances and they now would be investigating a number of alternative options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The timing of the match was set to cause problems for FC Seoul, who had a league game fixtured for two days earlier and a potential K-League Cup quarter-final on July 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"4\"><br \/>However an official from FC Seoul told <em>The Korea Times<\/em> that discussions had broke down following the recent K-League match-fixing scandal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe discussions between us and Liverpool on having a friendly ground to a halt since the scandal overwhelmed the K-League,\u201d said the official.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It was to be the first time Liverpool had visited Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Follow Goal.com on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goal_intl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/span><\/a>. Get the latest football news direct&#8230; Check out Goal.com&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Goal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/span><\/a>\u00a0page; be part of the best football fan community in the world!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/09\/2524298\/liverpool-cancel-korea-tour-due-to-k-league-match-fixing-scandal-\" title=\"Liverpool cancel Korea tour due to K-League match-fixing scandal - report\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool cancel Korea tour due to K-League match-fixing scandal &#8211; report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Ben Somerford 9 Jun 2011 07:18:00 Liverpool Logo Related Links Teams Liverpool have cancelled the South Korean leg of their Far-East pre-season tour due to \u201cmitigating circumstances\u201d. The Reds had announced in April they would be playing games in China, Malaysia and Korea during July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool cancel Korea tour due to K-League match-fixing scandal - report - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/09\/liverpool-cancel-korea-tour-due-to-k-league-match-fixing-scandal-report\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Liverpool cancel Korea tour due to K-League match-fixing scandal - report - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Ben Somerford 9 Jun 2011 07:18:00 Liverpool Logo Related Links Teams Liverpool have cancelled the South Korean leg of their Far-East pre-season tour due to \u201cmitigating circumstances\u201d. 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