FIFA ethics investigation recommends two-year ban against Germany's Niersbach


UEFA Executive Committee member Wolfgang Niersbach arrives for the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Basel, Switzerland May 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

ZURICH (Reuters) - Former German football association (DFB) chief Wolfgang Niersbach faces a possible two-year ban from soccer following an investigation by FIFA into alleged irregularities over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup.

Niersbach, who still sits on the world football body's Council, resigned from the DFB presidency in November after he was unable to explain a 6.7 million euro (5.16 million pounds) payment from the German World Cup organisers to FIFA.

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