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World football’s governing body FIFA today sacked its secretary
general Jerome Valcke after being previously banned from football
activities. He was alleged to have been involved in a scheme to profit
from the sale of World Cup tickets.
“The duties of the secretary general will continue to be assumed by
the acting secretary general, Dr Markus Kattner,” a FIFA statement reads
in part.
Valcke who joined FIFA in 2003 as director of marketing and TV was
also accused of $10m (£6.8m) bribe which was said to have been paid to
Jack Warner, the former head of the North and Central America football
governing body (CONCACAF).
FIFA’s ethics committee had on 7 January resolved open “formal
adjudicatory proceedings” against Valcke after studying a report
submitted by its investigatory chamber.
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