Fifa is investigating allegations that a fake Togo team played a match against Bahrain earlier this month.Togo later said it had never sent its national team to play in the game, at Bahrain's national stadium in Riffa.
The match was supposed to be part of Bahrain's preparations for the West Asian Football Championships.
The Bahrain Football Association said it had been arranged under all the usual official procedures, and through an agent they had known for several years.
"Everything seemed to be in order until after the game, when we began to hear that some people are wondering about these players and this Togo team," a BFA spokesman told the Gulf Daily News.
Togo's sport minister, Christophe Tchao, told the Jeune Afrique magazine that nobody in Togo had "ever been informed of such a game".
"We will conduct investigations to uncover all those involved in this case," he said.
Bahrain's head coach, Josef Hickersberger, told the Gulf Daily News the match had been a wasted opportunity for his team.
"They were not fit enough to play 90 minutes - the match was very boring," he said.
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