Fifa have announced that General Secretary Jerome Valcke has been sacked with immediate effect.
The decision comes a week after Fifa’s ethics committee recommended that the Frenchman be suspended from the world football governing body for nine years.
Valcke is already serving a suspension from participating in any ‘footballing activities’ for his alleged role in the World Cup ticketing scandal.
A statement released by Fifa read: The FIFA statement read: “The FIFA Emergency Committee decided, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secretary General with immediate effect. Jerome
Valcke is therefore no longer the Secretary General of FIFA.
“The employment relationship between FIFA and Jerome Valcke has also been terminated.
“Jerome Valcke was provisionally released from his duties as Secretary General on 17 September 2015, and on 7 January 2016, formal adjudicatory proceedings were opened against him by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert. The provisional suspension imposed on Jerome Valcke on 8 October 2015 and extended on 6 January 2016 continues to be valid.
“The duties of the Secretary General will continue to be assumed by the Acting Secretary General, Dr Markus Kattner.”
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Source: Telegraph