Ethics committee bans Chuck Blazer from football for life

07:08 - 09 July 2015

FIFA's ethics committee bans Chuck Blazer from football for life

In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes

Former FIFA executive committee member Chuck Blazer was banned from all football activities for life on Thursday by the sport's governing body which is engulfed in a scandal over alleged corruption.

"In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, payment and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, bribes and kickbacks as well as other money-making schemes," FIFA's ethics committee said in a statement announcing the ban.