Sports and Crime Briefing

Sports and Crime Briefing

Match-Fixing

8 Goals Scored, 119 Conceded - The Spanish Team That Existed Only for Match-Fixing

Huracán Melilla existed for just three years. In that time, they became one of the worst clubs in Spanish football, and one of its most-corrupt. The Sports and Crime Briefing tells the full story.

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Chris Dalby
Jun 06, 2025
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It is one of the Mediterranean’s curious geopolitical foibles that Spain has maintained the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on the African continent for hundreds of years. Melilla is the furthest of the two, a seven-hour ferry ride from the Iberian peninsula and nestled next to the Moroccan city of Nador.

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