ZURICH: Uruguay’s Sud America have failed in an appeal against punishment from world federation FIFA for effectively cheating the transfer system.

The club – formally Institución Atlética Sud América – must thus serve a transfer ban preventing it from registering any players for two transfer windows, starting next January.

Sud America, also fined 40,000 Swiss francs, had specialised in facilitating so-called ‘bridge transfers’ to circumvent international transfer regulations.

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