{"id":2408,"date":"2025-12-15T03:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T03:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2025-12-12T03:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:31:48","slug":"will-malaysia-suffer-the-same-fate-as-these-national-teams-caught-in-fifa-eligibility-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/will-malaysia-suffer-the-same-fate-as-these-national-teams-caught-in-fifa-eligibility-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Malaysia suffer the same fate as these national teams caught in FIFA eligibility scandals?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malaysia are supposed to be on the cusp of qualifying for the 2027 AFC Asian Cup with a perfect record of five wins from five in Group F. Under normal circumstances, the country would be celebrating a historic campaign. Instead, the mood has been muted after the national team became embroiled in one of the most damaging naturalisation controversies in modern football.<\/p>\n

FIFA has found the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) guilty of fielding seven naturalised players, namely Facundo Garces, Rodrigo Holgado, Imanol Machuca, Joao Figueiredo, Jon Irazabal, Gabriel Palmero and Hector Hevel, with falsified documentation.<\/p>\n

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