FIFA bribery allegation: Siasia battles to raise funds for appeal

Former Super Eagles striker, Samson Siasia is in trouble over how to raise the sum of $250,000 needed for an appeal of the alleged bribery case leveled against him by FIFA at Court of Arbitration for Sports CAS in Switzerland.


As at Monday only $200 have been raised by the former Super Eagles coach for the appeal at CAS.
Siasia had on Saturday approached an American crown funding platform, ‘GoFundMe’ to raise money to fight his legal battle.


GoFundMe, we gathered allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. 
From 2010 to 2017, over $5 billion was raised on the platform from 50 million donors.


The platform under an appeal code ‘Help Samson Siasia clear his name at FIFA’ has submitted the account number for Nigerians to assist him.
He was subsequently banned for life from all footballing activities, without the benefit of defending himself.
The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) has now accepted an appeal from Samson on FIFA’s ruling.


His legal cost of defending himself is needed for him to clear his name.
When the platform for donations was checked on Monday morning, the only donor was one Benson Ejindu  who donated $200 of the targeted $250,000.
Before the appeal was launched on ‘GoFundMe’, former Nigerian international, Kingsley Onye had asked current and former international Nigerian footballers to come to aid of Siasia.
Onye and Siasia were members of the Nigerian Under-20 team that won the third place in the then Soviet Union at the 1985 World Youth Championship, a competition that has since been renamed FIFA U20 World Cup.

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