Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, Sepp Blatter’s longstanding right-hand man, was banned from soccer for 12 years for breaching seven counts of the FIFA ethics code.They included taking private flights over commercial ones “without any business rationale for doing so,” attempting to grant the TV and media rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to a thirdparty “for a fee far below their actual value” and helped a sports marketing firm gain an undue advantage from the selling of World Cup tickets.