MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (AP) – Tottenham Managing Director Fabio Paratici will serve a worldwide ban for his part in a false accounting scandal involving Juventus, FIFA said on Wednesday.
Italy’s most famous football team was hit with a 15-point penalty in January and bans were handed out to a number of its officials, including former president Andrea Agnelli and former chief executive officer Maurizio Arrivabene. Paratici, who had already left his role as sporting director and taken up a new position at Tottenham, was handed the longest ban of two and a half years by the Italian football federation.
“FIFA can confirm that following a request by the Italian FA (FIGC), the Chairperson of FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee has decided to extend the sanctions imposed by FIGC on several football officials to have worldwide effect,” the governing body said.
