Nigeria striker Ike Uche has been fingered in a match-fixing scandal, according to Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

Uche’s club then Real Zaragoza beat Levante 2-1 on the final day of the 2010/11 season to avoid relegation, while Levante and Deportivo La Coruna were demoted as a result.

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Atletico Madrid captain Gabi, who scored Zaragoza’s two goals on that fateful day, confessed to a judge Thursday he was aware the match was fixed.

“I just did what the club asked me to do,” the 29-year-old  midfielder  simply said in court, according to  El  Mundo.

It is suspected that Levante players were paid to lose the match.

And the spotlight of this trial has fallen on  Agapito  Iglesias, the then  owner of Zaragoza, Leonardo Ponzio, Leo Franco and Uche, according to El Mundo.

The  prosecutor  wants  to question at least  20 players  in this match-fixing trial.