FIFA dismiss Secretary General Jerome Valcke

World football's governing body, FIFA, has dismissed Secretary General Jerome Valcke. The Frenchman, 55, was provisionally suspended from football for his alleged involvement in a scheme to profit from the sale of World Cup tickets.

He was released from his duties on 17 September after being accused of a series of Fifa ethics code breaches. Appointed in 2007, the former right-hand man of Fifa president Sepp Blatter has denied any wrongdoing. Fifa's ethics



committee has already recommended that Valcke should be banned from all footballing activities for nine years.

Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini were both suspended for eight years in December following a Fifa ethics investigation. Valcke has now been sacked twice by Fifa.