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more to fight fixing, says FIFA  Last updated on: January 21,
2014 08:52 IST  Governments must do more to fight fixing, say
FIFAFootballers who take part in match-manipulation risk losing
their careers if caught but those who induce the players and set
up the fix do so at almost no risk to themselves, according to
FIFA's head of security Ralf Mutschke.  In the last few years,
dozens of players have been banned, many for life, for trying to
manipulate matches, often driven to do so in desperation after
months of not being paid at all by cash-strapped clubs.  Recent
cases have involved, among others, the Austrian Bundesliga,
English football's semi-professional sixth tier and the El
Salvador national side, where 14 regular internationals, who
have formed the core of the national side for the last decade,
received life bans.  "The fix