Current Argentine FA President LUIS SEGURA and Argentine first division club San Lorenzo VP MARCELO TINELLI "are the only candidates allowed to run for the AFA presidency" after the Exec Committee meeting held on Tuesday, in which Segura and Tinelli presented the "required guarantees for the candidacy." The date for the elections will be defined in the Extraordinary Assembly meeting to be held on Oct. 22 (BUENOS AIRES HERALD, 9/30). ... The '12 and '13 friendlies organized by LIONEL MESSI "remain under investigation, but the Madrid District Attorney's office denied that Messi is implicated in laundering assets" (MUNDO DEPORTIVO, 9/30). ... A Belgian prosecutor has decided that ALEXANDRE VINOKOUROV and ALEXANDR KOLOBNEV "should stand trial on charges of private corruption." Vinokourov, the London 2012 Olympic road race champion, has been accused of paying Russia's Kolobnev £150,000 ($227,000) to "let him win the 2010 edition of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic." Both men face "between six months and three years in prison" and fines of between €300,000 ($335,000) and €600,000 ($670,000) if found guilty (SKY SPORTS, 9/30). ... Former Parma President GIAMPIETRO MANENTI has been "banned from football for five years for trying to use cloned credit cards and other illicit means" in a failed attempt to help the squad avoid bankruptcy. The Italian FA disciplinary court announced the decision on Tuesday, "after Manenti was arrested earlier this year on charges of money laundering and embezzlement." In March, Parm was "declared bankrupt" with debts of more than €200M ($224M) (ESPN, 9/30). ... Former Premier League forward MARCUS BENT was "tasered by police officers responding to calls of a break-in at his flat, after he rushed out the front door with a knife and a meat cleaver." Bent allegedly raised the cleaver at an officer, "prompting a colleague to use the stun gun on him as he was worried the policeman was going to be 'chopped.'" The ex-England U21 int'l, who played for 14 clubs during his career, had called the police to his flat "after shutting himself in the bathroom to escape from intruders who had broken in" (London DAILY MAIL, 9/30).
