5. BBC-Red card for Brazilian referee (1:11)
[New Words]
♧ allegation: n. (충분한 증거가 없는) 진술, 주장
♧ instruction : n. 지령, 지시
♧ referee : v. 심판을 보다, 중재하다 n. 심판
♧ betting ring : n. 도박단
♧ kick-off : n. 축구 등의 경기시작, 개시
♧ favor : v. 편들다, 각별히 보아주다
♧ allegedly : ad. 전해진 바에 의하면, 이른바
♧ suspend : v. 정직/정학시키다
♧ second referee : n. 부심
♧ accuse A of B : v. 고소/고발하다, 비난하다
♧ fix : v. 서로 짜고 속이다, 매수하다 n. fixing : 부정적인 행위
♧ amid : prep. ~이 한창인 가운데, ~의 한복판에
♧ Confederation : n. 연맹, 동맹
♧ inquiry : n. 조사, 질문, 문의
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Over several months the Brazilian police secretly recorded the phone conversations of forty-three year-old Edilson Pereira de Carvalho. The allegation is that he received instructions on how to referee First Division matches from participants in an illegal internet betting ring.
It's claimed that sometimes those instructions would come just moments before kick-off. Mr. Carvalho would then favour one team or the other, allegedly for a fee of between four and six thousand dollars per game. The official has now been questioned by the police and suspended from his duties, along with a second referee accused of fixing lower division matches. On Sunday the Brazilian authorities wrote to football's world governing body, FIFA, recommending that Mr. Carvalho also be suspended as an approved international referee.
With Brazil already two thirds of the way through its football season, there's now heated debate about what the authorities should do next. The eleven games refereed by Mr. Carvalho will almost certainly have to be replayed and amid claims of more widespread match fixing, the Brazilian Football Confederation has promised an independent inquiry.