Jacob Whitehead

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Are England fun again? Will Ronaldo ever be dropped? · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So this all surrounds Eli Wahi, who's the starting striker for Ivory Coast at this World Cup.

He helped him to a 1-0 victory over Ecuador a few days ago.

And he actually spent the second half of last season on loan at Nice for MindTrack Frankfurt.

He's had a fairly sort of winding career in the French leagues before that, but he's still only 23.

The story which we've reported is that just two weeks before the World Cup started, Wahi was arrested by French anti-corruption police.

The allegations surround alleged spot fixing in a game which Wahi played in against Metz on May 17th, in which he's accused of deliberately getting a yellow card in the 34th minute.

After that, 12 days later, Nice had a relegation playoff against Saint-Étienne.

While he had been suspended for the first leg a few days before, but in the second leg, he actually was man of the match.

He scored two goals.

But straight afterwards, he was arrested then by French police on suspicion of these fixing charges.

Now, it should be stressed that

Wahi, while he's been arrested in connection with this and the investigators, they've been told by the Marseille Public Prosecutor's Office, are looking at allegations of organised fraud, organised sports corruption and handling of proceeds of crime.

Wahi has not been charged and he's been released from custody after a few days, which means that Wahi has been allowed to travel to the United States for this World Cup.

So spot fixing is really a form of match fixing.

Match fixing is the process of, or as we generally know it, match fixing is trying to

I guess, manipulate the overall result of a game.

So, for example, deliberately losing a match.

Spot fixing relates to any sort of market within that.

And because of the growth of the gambling industry, and especially the data companies which power it, there's so many of these markets available now.

People know that you can bet on next goal scorer.

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