Valcke is facing a nine-year ban from FIFA after an ethics investigation into several alleged offences including being connected to black market sales of World Cup tickets.

FIFA’s ethics committee has recommended imposing a nine-year ban on the governing body’s suspended secretary general Jerome Valcke.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have both been provisionally banned for 90 days from any football-related activity in a ruling that throws world football into total meltdown.