The former Chilean FA president was in charge of evaluating 2018 and 2022 World Cup candidate countries, but has now been suspended for a seven-year period.
The man tasked with evaluating the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids has been given a seven-year ban for a breach of FIFA’s code of ethics.
Harold Mayne-Nicholls, who had previously served as president of the Chilean FA, was employed by FIFA to chair its Bid Evaluation Group looking into the feasibility of all candidates ahead of the 2010 decisions by the world governing body’s Executive Committee.
But FIFA announced on Monday that Mayne-Nicholls has been exiled from all forms of the game after an investigation by the organisation’s Ethics Committee.