Match fixing in international sports has been a big problem. Especially now with todays modern technology and the growth in popularity of sports. Match fixing is different than taking a performance enhancing drug, when taking a performance enhancing drug the player is trying to get better at what he or she doses. This is still against the rules, but at least the players are trying to get better and outplay their competition. With match fixing the players are getting paid to lose, which destroys the essence of competition. This problem is huge in Asian sports, especially in Asian football. Over the past decade Asian football as been riddled with scandal after scandal. This came to light when in 2013 during the Asian Champions League when the referees were bribed by the Jebonbuk Motors were defending their title against Melbourne Victory. The Jebonbuk Motors were owned by Hyundai Motors, they had the highest wage bill and were outspending everyone. There was no reason for them to be in the spirit of match fixing. The Jebonbuk Motors did though, The scouts for the team bribed the referees 1000 dollars. The amazing part was that it only took 1000 dollars for the referees to be bribed. The popularity of the sport was low and this story did not get the publicity that a FIFA scandal would. The unpopularity of the sport has kept all of these scandals in the dark not bringing to light the serious problems in Asian football. The problem now is that that match fixing has now spread from Asian sports to European sports. In Singapore a man named Dan Tee was accused of being a match fixing syndicate accused of being in thirty-two different scandals. The spreading of match fixing has reached European sports, the next question that we should ask ourselves is, when will it become global?
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