FIFA bans former council member from Uruguay for 1 year

Former FIFA Council member Wilmar Valdez was banned from soccer for one year on Tuesday for breaking his duty of loyalty.FIFA said its ethics committee judges also imposed a 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,200) fine on Valdez, the former president of Uruguay’s soccer federation. The case related to Valdez’s involvement in “various projects and tenders” by the Uruguayan federation.

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Media reports of audio recordings from 2016 which linked Valdez to potential wrongdoing gave FIFA investigators evidence to open a case.FIFA said “based on the content of the recordings, Mr. Valdez had breached his fiduciary duty towards the (Uruguay soccer federation).”Valdez briefly led CONMEBOL in the fallout from a U.S. investigation of corruption linked to FIFA that removed a generation of the continent’s soccer officials in 2015.

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