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Soccer-AFC suspend East Timor manager in match-fixing case

SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) - The team manager of the East Timor football side has been provisionally suspended by the Asian Football Confederation after a match-fixing scandal broke at the Southeast Asian Games.

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"Mr Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes, the team manager of the Federação Futebol Timor-Leste U-23 national team, has been provisionally suspended from all football-related activity," the AFC said in a statement on Monday.