FIFA's legal chief Villiger leaves governing body


FILE PHOTO: Director of FIFA's legal division Marco Villiger addresses a news conference after a meeting of the FIFA executive committee in Zurich September 26, 2014. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo

ZURICH (Reuters) - Marco Villiger, the man who was the key link between FIFA and U.S. anti-corruption investigators, has left the organisation, soccer's world governing body said on Monday.

Villiger, who was FIFA’s Deputy Secretary General and Chief Legal and Integrity Officer, was one of the few senior members of previous FIFA president Sepp Blatter's administration who kept his position under his successor Gianni Infantino.

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