{"id":33821,"date":"2025-11-15T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33821"},"modified":"2025-11-15T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:45:15","slug":"is-global-sports-betting-out-of-control-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=33821","title":{"rendered":"Is global sports betting out of control? | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Turkish footballers and referees have been found to hold illegal betting accounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sport betting scandal that took hold of the Turkish Football Federation this week has put a spotlight on an endemic issue.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of players and referees have been accused of illegally placing bets.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"more-on__heading\">Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">list of 3 items<\/span><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">end of list<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Authorities are trying to understand the scale and impact of a situation they\u2019re calling a \u201cmoral crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just Turkiye, it\u2019s not just football, and it\u2019s not just the lower leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Betting scandals are increasingly hitting major sports leagues around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are being bombarded with sports gambling advertisements, and betting regulations are easing.<\/p>\n<p>So, is sport still about the love of the game, or just the rush of placing a bet?<\/p>\n<p>What impact is gambling having on the pitch, and what can authorities do to keep the game honest?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Nick Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Emre Dedeoglu \u2013 Sports commentator<\/p>\n<p>Tancredi Palmeri \u2013 International sports analyst<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Allen \u2013 Football journalist and writer<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 15 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">15 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Turkish footballers and referees have been found to hold illegal betting accounts.\u00a0 The sport betting scandal that took hold of the Turkish Football Federation this week has put a spotlight on an endemic issue. Hundreds of players and referees have been accused of illegally placing bets. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7527,97,1413,1123,992],"class_list":{"0":"post-33821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-betting","9":"tag-control","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-global","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}