D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Kiwi footballers being targeted by international match fixers

New Zealand's national football league has attracted the attention of offshore gamblers, prompting concern among experts.

Recent figures show that $212 million was wagered on the New Zealand men's domestic football league in 2024 through overseas sports betting platforms.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
For seventeen darcies here.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Hey, Darce, I was waiting for the I know more
about vaccines than anybody.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
That's normally the next line after that one in procession,
Where did the Hannah Barbara music coming? Okay, sorry, I'll
get back to sport. That's stay in your lane, Darcy.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know, do you know what it's? I feel I
know more about sport than I do about that. Let's
just say something. Hey, yesterday we're talking about this match fixing,
the potential for match fixing and football domestic league here.
Have we heard anything from the players of what they were,
you know, the approaches they're getting that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Pretty quiet about that, But we've got Rebecca rolls On,
who is the Sports Integrity Commissioned CEO.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
She's going to join us up after seven o'clock to
talk about wasn't a number of lines along this?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I suppose, first and foremost, how do they protect their athletes?
That's the first thing.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
If you don't know, and this is all underground, you
don't know what to expect. And I heard your interview
with and just got home in yesterday, and it's about
keeping it up on the lights.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
And people know what's happening, and they know what the
approaches are, and they know how and what shape will form.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
The approaches will take. And a lot of people are
very innocent, pure as driven snow if you will. They
don't realize this.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
But the world's so small, as you very well know
that with the nature of sports betting and where we
set in the global clock, it probably makes a little
easier because a little in New Zealanders they don't really know.
They've kind of got their cood straw in their mouth
and the pair of dungarees.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
On and not paid much, don't know what's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Well probably not.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So I want to talk to Rebecca Rolls about the
protection of athletes and what concerns are being raised, what
avenues they've got to raise concerns. But you know, if
some awful bad man has turned up and wants you
to match fix it, has something on you and starts threatening,
they they'll go to great.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Lengths and extreme to make it happen.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
A lot they're speaking of money formula ones deep as
Christian Horner, is this true? One hundred and eighty four
million New Zealand dollars small.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Change in Formula one. It really is. It's a billionaire's sport.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
It's it's wild.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Wild career. The next step though, is he's only a
young follow He's only like fifty fifty one something like that, so.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
And he can go do it coach and lead.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Now, well, he's the principal, so he's basically the overlord
of everything, and he oversaw the rise and rise of
red Ball to the top of the world. He would
be hugely sought after by a number of teams for
the question is which team would or could have him,
And there's an oil around talking about Aston Martin and
the possibility that he'll be reunited with Adrian new He

(02:41):
arguably the best car builder there is, who worked under
him for quite some time.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Lots of options, lots more money to make it possibly.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
I don't think he's in it for money anymore. I
really don't think it's beyond.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And also you've got spy skill money coming into which
is worth a pretty penny. We had to mention that
didn't you couldn't go without darcyc tonight. Good to see it.
That's we'll sport here on News Talk SIBB.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
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