Football Notes: Tribunal Upholds Three-Year Match-Fixing Ban On Torino Goalkeeper

The Italian football federation (FIGC) said on Saturday that a tribunal "has rejected Torino goalkeeper Jean Francois Gillet's appeal against the Belgian international's match-fixing ban of three years and seven months" (REUTERS, 7/27). ... Kenya is the latest African country "to come under the spotlight for alleged footballing corruption over allegations that several hundred thousand dollars, part of it a donation from FIFA, have gone missing." The country's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission "has received information about the alleged misappropriation of up to $410,000 by the Kenyan FA" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 7/26). ... Football Kenya Federation President Sam Nyamweya "has threatened to sue a leading local daily over an article it published on Thursday concerning allegations of graft in the body" (XINHUA, 7/26).