Tottenham are “urgently seeking further clarification from FIFA” after the club’s managing director of football Fabio Paratici’s ban in Italy was extended worldwide.
Paratici is suspended in his home country after his former club Juventus, where he was sporting director and latterly managing director, were found guilty of false accounting.
FIFA’s extension of their ban – which was initially 30 months and applicable only to Italian football – means he will have to step down from his role at Tottenham.
Club announcement – Fabio Paratici — Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) March 29, 2023 A Tottenham statement read: “FIFA has late this afternoon responded to us in writing notifying us that a decision has been made by the FIFA disciplinary committee to extend the FIGC sanction worldwide. “This committee deliberation has been taken with no advance notice to any of the parties involved.