FIFA waiting on Mutko details

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FIFA has promised it will take “appropriate measures” against Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko if it is satisfied he was personally involved in the country’s doping scandal.

Mutko, the president of the Russian Football Union and chairman of the organising committee of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, has been a member of FIFA’s Council (formerly known as the executive committee) since 2009.

But the 57-year-old’s position in world sport is under threat after he was implicated in Richard McLaren’s devastating report into state-directed doping in Russia.

Set up by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in response to media reports of widespread cheating at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the report said more than 30 different sports, including football, had benefited from various schemes to cheat anti-doping rules …

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