FIFA General Secretary, Jerome Valcke, sacked

FIFA's emergency committee has dismissed Jerome Valcke from the organisation after some ethics charges were brought against him over world cup sales of ticket.

FIFA sent out a press release which stated:
The FIFA emergency committee decided to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA secretary general with immediate effect.

Jerome Valcke is therefore no longer the secretary general of FIFA.

''The employment relationship between FIFA and Jerome Valcke has also been terminated. The duties of the secretary general will continue to be assumed by the acting secretary general, Dr Markus Kattner."
Valcke is facing a nine-year ban from FIFA after an ethics investigation into several alleged offences which are black market sales of World Cup tickets.

FIFA's investigatory chamber finished its probe last week and has recommended a nine-year ban and a fine of 100,000 Swiss francs (£69,000) on charges including conflicts of interest and offering and accepting gifts and other benefits.

Valcke was suspended after allegations were made claiming he planned to benefit from black market World Cup ticket sales. He has denied any wrongdoing, saying his conduct had always been "exemplary.

Valcke has been fired by FIFA before now, he was dismissed in December 2006 as marketing director after an American judge said he had lied many times during FIFA's botched sponsorship negotiations with rival card giants MasterCard and Visa.

Meanwhile in less than eight months later, Valcke was back in FIFA as second in command to president Sepp Blatter, who had been banned for eight years by the ethics committee"