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Manager held in soccer probe

POLICE in eastern China have detained a football club manager in the nationwide crackdown on soccer betting that has involved several executives and officials from the football association. The man identified by... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Nov 16 2009

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