September 4 – Within just a couple of weeks of losing their long-standing legal brain Marco Villiger, FIFA have swooped to secure the services of Alasdair Bell, the equally astute legal director at UEFA according to reports.
The Associated Press claims that both Bell and UEFA’s managing director for integrity Emilio Garcia have moved across Switzerland from Nyon to Zurich in a move that will do little to smooth relations between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his UEFA counterpart Aleksander Ceferin.
The AP said Bell, one of UEFA’s most influential behind-the-scenes trouble-shooters, began work at FIFA this week. Both he and Garcia worked at UEFA under Infantino.
The job switches have been widely rumoured in recent weeks, with Bell, a Scot who like Villiger largely shuns the limelight, becoming FIFA’s deputy secretary general for administration. Spain’s Garcia is reported to have been appointed FIFA’s chief legal and integrity officer six years after joining UEFA.
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