Inside La Liga: Cloud gathers over Villar’s reign in Spain

At an extraordinary session in Zurich last Tuesday, the Fifa Executive Committee appointed Spanish FA president Angel Maria Villar Llona as acting chairman of the Organising Committee for the Fifa World Cup 2018.

Villar moved into the position after many other senior Fifa figures, including president Sepp Blatter, were suspended from duties.

That followed from the Spanish FA (RFEF) president being appointed as acting Uefa chief earlier this month, when that organisation’s president Michel Platini was also forced to step aside pending investigation of his past conduct.