A former A-League captain went from being toasted as player of the year to secretly coordinating with a shady overseas figure to enact a betting scandal that rocked the sport.

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Macarthur Bulls leader Ulises Davila, 34, liaised with a Columbian known as "J Col" to corrupt the betting outcomes of five football games across the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

In one message, the agreed facts show he asked his associate whether there was any market for yellow card fixing by using the banana emoji as code.

The Mexican roped his teammates Clayton Lewis and Ke

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