Siasia Sues FIFA, Demands Refund of $54k Fine
Samson Siasia, former Super Eagles player and coach, has sued FIFA over the federation’s earlier decision to hand him a life ban from all football-related activities.
In 2019, FIFA had found Siasia “guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches”.
The world football governing body had said the offence violated its code of ethics while the ban was also accompanied by a 50,000 Swiss francs ($54,000) fine.
On June 21, the sanction was however reduced to a five-year ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).
The court had also ruled that the life ban handed to the Nigerian was “disproportionate” to the offence he was said to have committed.
But in a dramatic twist, Siasia filed a suit at a federal court in New York on Monday, chall...