Afghanistan football president and coach forced me to fix matches, claims banned player

A former Afghanistan international given a lifetime ban from football has claimed he was forced by his coach and the president of the country’s football federation to send emails to a notorious match-fixer in an attempt to arrange the result of games.

Mohammad Salim Israfeel Kohistani has accused Fifa of dismissing his allegations that the former AFF president Keramuddin Keram and Keram’s successor, Mohammad Kargar, who previously had two spells as coach of the senior men’s team, ordered him to send emails to Wilson Raj Perumal to arrange the results of games against Nepal and Sierra Leone at the Merdeka tournament in 2008.