FIFA bans Blatter for second time over financial wrongdoing

FIFA says Blatter and former secretary-general Valcke banned for six years and eight months for financial wrongdoing.

Sepp Blatter, the former chief of football’s world governing body FIFA, has been banned for a second time by the organisation over financial wrongdoing, seven months before the 85-year-old’s first ban expires. FIFA said on Wednesday its ethics committee banned both Blatter and former Secretary-General Jerome Valcke for six years and eight months for financial wrongdoing linked to awarding themselves contractual bonuses worth millions of dollars. Both men, who also face criminal proceedings in Switzerland, will start serving the new bans when their current ones expire.