LONDON — FIFA executive committee member Vernon Manilal Fernando of Sri Lanka was provisionally banned from any football activity for 90 days Monday, FIFA said in a statement. Fernando, 63, has been a member of the FIFA executive since 2011 and was banned following a request by Michael Garcia, the chairman of the investigatory chamber of the ethics committee and Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the committee. Fernando is a former close ally of banned ex-FIFA executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hamman. Bin Hamman was banned from football last year following his involvement in a bribery scandal. — Reuters
