{"id":450747,"date":"2011-06-30T07:51:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/nigeria-fifa-hunts-for-eagles-argentina-match-ref\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:51:15","slug":"nigeria-fifa-hunts-for-eagles-argentina-match-ref","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/nigeria-fifa-hunts-for-eagles-argentina-match-ref\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Fifa Hunts for Eagles- Argentina Match Ref"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.6772767462\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>29 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Fifa&#8217;s security chief is trying to locate Nigerien referee Ibrahim Chaibou, who officiated a friendly international that is being investigated for match-fixing claims.<\/p>\n<p>Chaibou has disappeared since it was revealed that Fifa are looking into suspicious betting patterns surrounding Nigeria&#8217;s 4-1 win over Argentina on 1 June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying hard to track down the referee and we are confident that we will succeed,&#8221; Fifa&#8217;s head of security Chris Eaton said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria were leading the game 4-0 until Chaibou awarded Argentina, who fielded a second-string side, a penalty for handball in the eighth minute of injury time.<\/p>\n<p>This was despite the fourth official having indicated just five minutes of injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Television replays showed the ball had hit a Nigerian player&#8217;s shin.<\/p>\n<p>While the score was 4-0 to Nigeria, a huge amount of money in the Asian gambling markets was bet on a fifth goal being scored in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Chaibou has been involved in controversial games before.<\/p>\n<p>He was in charge of the match last September where Bahrain beat a fake Togo team 3-0, which is also being investigated for possible match-fixing.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2010, Chaibou awarded three controversial penalties for handballs as South Africa beat Guatemala 5-0 in a World Cup warm-up match.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the South Africa Football Association said it hoped that game was not affected by match-fixing but added it would help Fifa if the latter decided to investigate it.<\/p>\n<p>Chaibou has been on the Fifa international referees list since 1996 but must stand down this year after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 45.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106300179.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Fifa Hunts for Eagles- Argentina Match Ref\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Fifa Hunts for Eagles- Argentina Match Ref<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 29 June 2011 Fifa&#8217;s security chief is trying to locate Nigerien referee Ibrahim Chaibou, who officiated a friendly international that is being investigated for match-fixing claims. Chaibou has disappeared since it was revealed that Fifa are looking into suspicious betting patterns surrounding Nigeria&#8217;s 4-1 win over Argentina on 1 June. &#8220;We are trying hard to track down the referee and we are confident that we will succeed,&#8221; Fifa&#8217;s head of security Chris Eaton said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":420915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Fifa Hunts for Eagles- Argentina Match Ref - 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\/30\/nigeria-fifa-hunts-for-eagles-argentina-match-ref\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Fifa Hunts for Eagles- Argentina Match Ref - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"29 June 2011 Fifa&#039;s security chief is trying to locate Nigerien referee Ibrahim Chaibou, who officiated a friendly international that is being investigated for match-fixing claims. 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