ZURICH (AP) β FIFA says the head of the English Football Association will face no disciplinary action after returning a luxury watch given as a World Cup gift.
FIFA’s ethics investigators in September ordered football officials to return 25,000 Swiss franc ($26,600) watches that were given by the Brazilian federation at the pre-World Cup congress in June.
Despite the October deadline to return his watch, English FA chairman Greg Dyke pressed ahead with a plan to give the Parmigiani timepiece to a breast cancer charity.
FIFA announced on Tuesday that Dyke returned his watch, adding that the ethics committee “decided to close the proceedings in respect of a possible breach of the FIFA code of ethics.”
FIFA is yet to release statements on the return of the other 64 watches.
