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Tue, 07/26/2011 - 07:19
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K-League replaces All-Star Game with charity event
SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- The top local professional football league has canceled its annual All-Star Game in light of a league-wide match-fixing scandal.
K-League announced Tuesday that it will replace the annual All-Star festivities with a charity event next Monday. Earlier, the league office tried to schedule the game either for this Saturday or Sunday.
The match-fixing controversy, first reported in May, has seen dozens of active and former players arrested and indicted on charges of taking bribes from gambling brokers in exchange for trying to rig scores. K-League has issued lifetime bans on indicted players and has vowed a zero-tolerance policy on future transgressors.
There was no All-Star fan voting for this year. Jeju United's head coach Park Kyung-hoon, the reigning K-League coach of the year, will instead select 20 All-Stars from 16 K-League teams, and they will hold a clinic for a junior team of mentally disabled players on Monday.
The clinic will be held at the National Football Center in Paju, a training ground for national teams located north of Seoul.
Separately, the 16 clubs will also offer football lessons in their respective home cities for the underprivileged, the league office said. These activities will run from Friday to Aug. 3.
jeeho@yna.co.kr
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K-League announced Tuesday that it will replace the annual All-Star festivities with a charity event next Monday. Earlier, the league office tried to schedule the game either for this Saturday or Sunday.
The match-fixing controversy, first reported in May, has seen dozens of active and former players arrested and indicted on charges of taking bribes from gambling brokers in exchange for trying to rig scores. K-League has issued lifetime bans on indicted players and has vowed a zero-tolerance policy on future transgressors.
There was no All-Star fan voting for this year. Jeju United's head coach Park Kyung-hoon, the reigning K-League coach of the year, will instead select 20 All-Stars from 16 K-League teams, and they will hold a clinic for a junior team of mentally disabled players on Monday.
The clinic will be held at the National Football Center in Paju, a training ground for national teams located north of Seoul.
Separately, the 16 clubs will also offer football lessons in their respective home cities for the underprivileged, the league office said. These activities will run from Friday to Aug. 3.
jeeho@yna.co.kr
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