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          FIFA, FIFPro and Interpol launch match-fixing campaign

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            Oct 30, 2014, 12:33 PM ET

            TOKYO -- FIFA, international players' union FIFPro and Interpol have launched a campaign to combat match-fixing.

            The aim of the campaign, launched at the FIFPro Congress in Tokyo, is to raise awareness of the dangers of match-fixing, to provide positive role models for players and to educate them on how to recognise, resist and report attempts to fix matches.

            To start the campaign, the three organisations are releasing a DVD produced by Interpol that provides players with information they need to help fight match-fixing.

            The DVD features players like Frank Lampard, Sone Aluko and Kolo Toure.

            In April, a Malaysian man who organized an international match-fixing syndicate involving Australian games in 2013 was jailed for at least a year.