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- Two soccer players in Australia given good-behavior bonds for match-fixing</p>
<p>September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM</p>
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<p>FILE - New Zealand's Clayton Lewis (15) controls the ball during a play-off qualifying match for the 2018 Russian World Cup in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File) ()</p>
<p>SYDNEY (AP) — Two former A-League soccer players were given the equivalent of a good-behavior bond on Wednesday for taking 10,000 Australian dollars ( $6,600) to deliberately receive yellow cards in a betting scam.</p>
<p>Ex-Macarthur Bulls players Kearyn Baccus and Clayton Lewis will serve a two-year conditional release order, similar to a good behavior bond, after they were sentenced in Sydney.</p>
<p>They will have to repay the money they received for getting the yellow cards in December 2023 as a fine.</p>
<p>The pair were "right at the bottom of the scheme" allegedly orchestrated by their then-captain Ulises Davila, magistrate Michael Blair said at Sydney's Central Local Court.</p>
<p>Baccus, 33, and Lewis, 27, pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct that corrupts the betting outcome of an event, with Blair finding both players were genuinely remorseful for their actions.</p>
<p>The charges related to a Macarthur game against Sydney FC on Dec. 9, 2023 when bets were placed on Macarthur to receive at least four yellow cards.</p>
<p>Davila was booked for delaying play by kicking the ball away, Lewis was cautioned for pushing an opponent in the chest and Baccus earned his yellow for a poor tackle on a Sydney player.</p>
<p>Winning payouts for the bets placed in South America through a gambling site and allegedly orchestrated by Davila totaled more than $100,000.</p>
<p>Blair found there was no evidence Lewis or Baccus had any knowledge of the wagers being placed on their actions or even how much they would be paid.</p>
<p>The magistrate said the two were reckless to deliberately get the yellow cards but he was not satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt they knew they were corrupting a betting outcome.</p>
<p>All three players were suspended by Macarthur FC after their arrests and Davila and Baccus have since been released from their contracts, with Baccus working as a truck driver.</p>
<p>Davila, accused of acting as a conduit between the Macarthur players and a Colombian criminal known as "J Col", has not yet entered pleas to nine charges against him. He will face court on those charges on Thursday.</p>
<p>Before his arrest, Davila won an award for best player in the Australian league in 2020-21.</p>
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