FIFA: one year suspension for Wolfgang Niersbach, the former president of the German Federation

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Wolfgang Niersbach, former DFB president (2012-2015) and former vice-president of the local organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, has been suspended for one year by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee, announced the international federation on 25/07/2016.

Wolfgang Niersbach has been found guilty of not...

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