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Zimbabwe Football Association suspends chief executive
The Chief Executive of the Zimbabwe Football Association, Zifa, has been suspended of allegations over match fixing.
The Chief Executive of the Zimbabwe Football Association, Zifa, has been suspended of allegations over match fixing.
Henrietta Rushwaya is being investigated on betting allegations relating to the national team's tour of the Far East in December.
Zimbabwe lost 6-0 to Syria in Kulala Lumpur and 3-0 to Thailand on the tour.
Rushwaya has denied any wrong doing and says she will cooperate with the on-going investigation.
"The decision has been necessitated by alleged acts of mismanagement and the serious irregularities surrounding the national team's trip to Asia in December 2009," the football federation president Cuthbert Dube said in a statement.
The issue will now be referred to football's world governing body Fifa.
