Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was Friday banned for 12 years by the ethics committee of football's world governing body. The adjudicatory chamber of the ethics committee said Valcke was banned from all football-related activities with immediate effect and fined 100,000 Swiss francs (102,400 dollars), dpa reported. The ban follows an investigation into allegations of potential misconduct related to the sale of World Cup tickets and other cases of alleged misconduct. "During the course of the investigations, several other acts of potential misconduct arose, in particular abuse of the FIFA travel expenses policies and regulations, cases involving related-parties issues and the sale of TV and other media rights, and the destruction of evidence," a statement said.
