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Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has been banned from football for life.
The 72-year-old Trinidadian is the former head of Caribbean and North and Central American football (Concacaf), but quit Fifa in 2011.
He is fighting extradition to the US on corruption charges and denies accepting millions of dollars in bribes.
Warner committed “many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly” said the football world governing body’s ethics committee.
Fifa’s ruling follows its own investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which began looking at Warner’s activities in January 2015.
On Tuesday, Fifa said Warner had been found guilty of violating the organisation’s code of ethics several times.
A statement read: “In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes.”
Editor’s Note: It’s about time, this man is as bent as nine bob note (Ask your Grandad). It is literally astonishing how this guy hasn’t been banged up before now. If I had been a corrupt FIFA vice President and made millions illegally then retired in 2011 at the age of 75; a ban from football for life would destroy me (rolls eyes), but with the F.B.I. on his tail then I guess that’s the least of his worries
