SEOUL - Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-joon thinks the recent suspension of two executive committee members for alleged ethics violations is too harsh.
"I personally believe the disciplinary measures on the two executive committee members are excessive," Chung told reporters in Seoul yesterday.
The ethics panel for football's world governing body last week banned Nigeria's Amos Adamu from all football activity for three years for allegedly agreeing to take bribes from undercover reporters from Britain's The Sunday Times newspaper who posed as lobbyists trying to buy votes.
It also suspended Reynald Temarii of Tahiti, the president of the Oceania confederation, for one year for breaching Fifa's loyalty and confidentiality rules when he was secretly filmed. Chung said the two committee members' remarks were "not careful" but he wondered if their behaviour was serious enough to warrant such a punishment.
Fifa bans too harsh, says Chung
SEOUL - Fifa vice-president Chung Mong-joon thinks the recent suspension of two executive committee members for alleged ethics violations is too harsh.
"I personally believe the disciplinary measures on the two executive committee members are excessive," Chung told reporters in Seoul yesterday.
The ethics panel for football's world governing body last week banned Nigeria's Amos Adamu from all football activity for three years for allegedly agreeing to take bribes from undercover reporters from Britain's The Sunday Times newspaper who posed as lobbyists trying to buy votes.
It also suspended Reynald Temarii of Tahiti, the president of the Oceania confederation, for one year for breaching Fifa's loyalty and confidentiality rules when he was secretly filmed. Chung said the two committee members' remarks were "not careful" but he wondered if their behaviour was serious enough to warrant such a punishment.
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