{"id":548113,"date":"2026-03-20T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548113\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:57:07","slug":"from-pitch-to-pocket-tracing-money-trail-in-msian-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548113\/","title":{"rendered":"From pitch to pocket: Tracing money trail in M&#8217;sian football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENT | Boxing and football may seem worlds apart, but boxing parlance aptly describes the barrage of blows suffered by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).<\/p>\n<p>Two left hooks left the boxer staggering, and despite the trainer\u2019s insistence that there was more fight left, the uppercut sent him crashing to the canvas &#8211; a knockout that would end his career.<\/p>\n<p>If the Malaysian football saga was reported like a bout, the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa)\u2019s two blows would have been enough to warrant a strategic retreat.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, FAM\u2019s leaders refused to throw in the towel and instead chose to \u201cgo to war\u201d at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), only to be met with an uppercut that left them sprawled on the canvas.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves a winner &#8211; the sweet taste of glory, the rewards of victory. But failure? Failure flips the script. Friends vanish. Reputation crumbles. Authority is stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, you are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMENT | Boxing and football may seem worlds apart, but boxing parlance aptly describes the barrage of blows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-548113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}