Unrepentant Match Fixer, Perumal Claims He Assisted Nigeria Qualify For 2010 World Cup
A match fixer from Singapore, Wilson Raj Perumal has claimed that he assisted Nigeria qualify for the 2010 World Cup held in South Africa. <br /><br />In his autobiography which he wrote in conjunction with two Italian investigative journalists Alessandro Righi and Emanuele Piano, Perumal alleged that he offered $100,000 to the Mozambique Federation for the national team to draw their World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in 2009.<br /><br />And he further claimed that he had players on his payroll that ensured the script was acted. <br /><br />“My plan had worked and I was the unsung hero of Nigeria’s qualification to the final rounds of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.<br /><br />"Ferrying Nigeria and Honduras to the World Cup was a personal achievement. I got two teams to qualify for the World Cup but I cannot tell anyone,” Wilson Raj Perumal was quoted as saying by the electronic edition of the Guardian.<br /><br />In the book, <span style="" class="notranslate">Kelong Kings, it was claimed that </span>Wilson Raj Perumal pocketed a percentage of the funds Fifa gave to Nigeria to prepare for the mundial and arranged three tune - up games before the tournament. <br /><br />
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