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FIFA bans former vice-president Jack Warner from football for life

Disgraced former vice-president Jack Warner is banned for life by FIFA's ethics committee and described as a "key player" involved in illegal payments.

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has been banned for life from football by the organisation's ethics committee.

Warner, who resigned from FIFA in 2011 following a bribery scandal, was described as a "key player" involved in illegal payments.

A statement from the ethics committee read: "Mr Warner was found to have committed many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF.

"In his positions as a football official, he was a key player in schemes involving the offer, acceptance, and receipt of undisclosed and illegal payments, as well as other money-making schemes."

Warner responded to the ban in an email to PA that claimed it was no coincidence that he had banned at the same time that Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are under scrutiny.

"I left the FIFA in April 2011 and if in September 2015 the FIFA wants to ban me for life without even a hearing then so be it," wrote Warner. "I do not believe however that this will serve as the distraction to the FIFA's present problems as the FIFA wishes it to be.

"Given what is happening in Zurich with Blatter I wish to say that there is no such thing as coincidence."

Warner is currently fighting extradition from Trinidad to the USA on corruption charges.

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