International and former Super Eagles, Flying Eagles, and Dream Team coach Samson Siasia says he would unveil plans for the next phase of his career following the end of his five-year FIFA ban.
World football governing body FIFA initially banned Siasia for life and fined him $50,000 for agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches’ for betting purposes.
According to FIFA, the ban of the Nigerian legend was a fallout of an extensive investigation into matches that Wilson Perumal attempted to fix.
However, Siasia denied the charges and appealed at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, getting the punishment reduced to five years in 2021.
The court also cancelled the $50,000 fine imposed on Siasia by FIFA, while the ban was backdated to start on August 16, 2019.
In its judgement, CAS said it “determined the imposition of a life ban to be disproportionate for a first offence which was committed passively and which had not had an adverse or immediate effect on football stakeholders, and that a five-year ban would still achieve the envisaged aim of punishing the infringement committed by Siasia.”
