Former FIFA executive Jerome Valcke loses CAS appeal against 10-year ban

Sepp Blatter's former right-hand man Jerome Valcke has failed in an attempt to have a 10-year ban from football overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Lausanne-based tribunal has announced.

Valcke worked under Blatter at FIFA from 2003 to 2015, spending the last eight years as the organisation's secretary general.