FIFA banned three more former South African Football Association (SAFA) officials Monday over match-fixing in friendly games ahead of the country’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup.

    Former SAFA chief executive Leslie Sedibe was banned for five years and fined 20,000 Swiss francs (US$20,200). The governing body also banned Steve Goddard and Adeel Carelse, both former officials at SAFA’s referees department, for two years each.

    Last year, Lindile Kika, SAFA’s head of national teams in 2010, was banned from all soccer activities for six years.

    FIFA believes that at least one of the South African national team’s friendly games in the weeks ahead of the continent’s first World Cup was fixed by the referee. SAFA officials were under investigation for allowing a company controlled by Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Raj Perumal to appoint the referees for the games.

    FIFA hasn’t identified the game or games in question.

    (SD-Agencies)