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An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport

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Among the variety of match-fixing situations, this chapter focuses on those where the object of the fix is primarily to obtain a sporting loss, often in view to getting a financial return from an associated betting scheme. Soccer gathers the great bulk of match-fixing cases namely in the European Big Five leagues but also in other leagues worldwide. Match-fixing has globalised together with football economic globalisation, sometimes using club ownership as a lever. Match-fixing has spread to cricket, baseball, basketball, American football, boxing, tennis, figure skating, snooker, sailing, among other sports, including some amateur sports.

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    Seemingly, several mafias were involved such as the Singapore Triads associated to the so-called “the Gipsies” clan, from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and the Hungarians clan (Kalb 2015).

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    This reminds the barter corruption bargain in sumo wrestling though money fuels such deals in Russia.

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Andreff, W. (2019). Match-Fixing. In: An Economic Roadmap to the Dark Side of Sport. Palgrave Pivots in Sports Economics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28479-4_2

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