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Fifa bans Tahiti football official for eight years

Zurich-based Fifa has banned Reynald Temarii, General Director of the Tahiti Football Association, for eight years for breaking the world body's ethics code by accepting more than €300,000 from former Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam.

Fifa bans Tahiti football official for eight years
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The international football federation said on Wednesday that Temarii accepted €305,640 from Bin Hammam, who was then a member of the Fifa executive committee and the AFC president, to cover the costs of his legal expenses in the context of an appeal against a previous ban imposed by Fifa's ethics committee in November 2010.

Temarii was banned as of Wednesday “from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level for a period of eight years”, Fifa said.

“Mr Temarii received the money in January 2011 following a meeting with Mr Bin Hammam in November 2010 in Kuala Lumpur,” FIFA said in a statement after the ruling by the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Fifa Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert.
   
Temarii was banned as of Wednesday “from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level for a period of eight years”, Fifa said.
   
Oceanian ex-football chief Temarii was previously suspended by Fifa for his role in the bribery scandal that rocked bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
   
In November 2010, Fifa's ethics committee banned Temarii from Fifa's decision making executive committee for one year and fined him for ethics violations, following a Sunday Times undercover report on vote-buying during the race to host the World Cups.
   
Russia and Qatar won the right to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in a secret ballot by the remaining members of Fifa's executive committee in December.
   
But the process and outcome met with severe criticism from several quarters.

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VIDEO: Spain’s La Liga reviews video of boy racially abusing Vinicius

Spain's La Liga on Monday said it was reviewing a video of a child making racist insults towards Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior during the 2-2 draw with Valencia at the weekend.

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“We’re in the process of studying and analysing the facts from a legal standpoint to see what we can and should do,” La Liga sources said.

In a video published by a journalist for ESPN Brasil, and picked up by Spanish media, a boy sitting in a woman’s lap can be heard calling Vinicius a “monkey”.

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The Brazilian scored twice for Madrid as his team recovered from two goals down at Mestalla on Saturday.

Vinicius raised his fist in a “Black Power” salute after the first of his two goals at a ground where he was racially abused last season. Valencia subsequently banned three people from the stadium for life.

The 23-year-old has become a symbol of the fight against discrimination in Spanish football after suffering racist abuse on many occasions, and he was jeered repeatedly by home supporters on Saturday.

Jude Bellingham was sent off after the final whistle against Valencia for protesting after the referee blew the final whistle right before the England midfielder headed home what he thought was the winning goal.

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