November 3 – The revolving door at FIFA under Gianni Infantino’s presidency has claimed yet another member of the old guard with the news that the organisation’s highly respected chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak has stepped down from his post after 22 years in the job.
FIFA said it would develop the work Dvorak, 68, had accomplished in its future drive for improvements especially in the campaign to stamp out doping and that his replacement would be named in due course.
In a statement, Dvorak said: “FIFA has been a pioneer in sport medicine and I am proud to have been leading this process for more than two decades. I sincerely hope that the new management of FIFA will take my legacy to the football community.”
Dvorak is the latest senior figure to leave his post since Infantino took over from Sepp Blatter in February. Niclas Ericsson, FIFA’s director of tv who has been the organisation’s main media dealmaker, is stepping down at the end of the year while long-term marketing chief Thierry Weil left in the first week of October.
Weil was responsible for sponsorship and admitted late last year that signing new partnerships would prove “challenging” as a result of the US-led corruption investigation.
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