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.

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.

They will have to repay the money they received for getting the yellow cards in December 2023 as a fine.

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.

Baccus, 33, and Lewis, 27, pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct that corrupts the betting outcome of an event, with Bla

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