00:00Malaysia's biggest football scandal isn't just about fake passports.
00:05It's also about what happens when bureaucracy, deceit, and silence destroy lives downstream.
00:11Seven men, Garseh, Arocha, Horgado, Macuka, Figuredu, Arazabal, and Hevel,
00:18once wore Malaysia's colours. Now they wear the mark of disgrace.
00:22FIFA's verdict is clear. A one-year global ban, a RM11,000 fine each,
00:28and total suspension from football. No matches, no income, no future, at least not for now.
00:35The unluckiest was Immanuel Macuka. He played just about 20 minutes,
00:40a substitute appearance in the 4-0 win over Vietnam in the Asian Cup qualifiers.
00:45That single match in June triggered the complaint that exposed the fraud.
00:50Behind the headlines lies the human wreckage. Careers frozen, contracts void, deportations looming.
00:56They trusted the papers, the process, the promise of belonging.
01:00But the system that invited them also betrayed them.
01:04FIFA may have punished deceit, but the punishment spilled far wider.
01:09Because when an association fails, the players fall first.
01:13And when institutions lie, it's people, not policies, who pay.
01:17Can they fight back? The court of arbitration for sport offers a door.
01:22Narrow, costly, uncertain.
01:25Even a win there won't erase the stain.
01:28Malaysia doesn't owe them absolution,
01:30but it owes them recognition that they were caught in a collapse larger than themselves.
01:35The deeper question is ours.
01:38Who built the machinery that made this possible?
01:40Who signed? Who approved? Who looked away?
01:43The reckoning can't stop at the seven.
01:46It must go up the chain to the architects of deceit, not just its victims.
01:51Because this isn't a story about football,
01:53it's a story about trust, broken, buried, and now demanding to be rebuilt.
01:58Their ruin is Malaysia's mirror,
02:00and what it reflects is not just failure,
02:03but the cost of forgetting why transparency matters.
02:06For the full story of how systems fail and lives unravel,
02:11read Frankie The Cruises They Wore Our Colors,
02:13The System Broke Them, only on FMT.
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