The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday announced that it has reduced the life ban imposed on former Head Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Samson Siasia to five years.
World football governing body, FIFA, had placed Siasia with life ban over alleged match fixing scandal.
However, the Court ruled that Siasia was a first offender and it would be injustice to ban him for life even when he has not received any financial benefit from the deal that brought the punishment on him.
The judgement was delivered after CAS heard Siasia’s appeal earlier.
However, the Panel considered in the particular circumstances of this matter that it would be inappropriate and excessive to impose a financial sanction in addition to the five-year ban, since the ban sanction already incorporated a financial punishment in eliminating football as a source of revenue for Mr Siasia, and considering that Mr Siasia had not obtained any gain or pecuniary.
