Fifa have announced that General Secretary Jerome Valcke has been sacked with immediate effect.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Valcke is already serving a suspension from participating in any ‘footballing activities’ for his alleged role in the World Cup ticketing scandal.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n
Valcke is therefore no longer the Secretary General of FIFA.<\/p>\n
“The employment relationship between FIFA and Jerome Valcke has also been terminated.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
“The duties of the Secretary General will continue to be assumed by the Acting Secretary General, Dr Markus Kattner.”<\/p>\n
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Source: Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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