Fifa dumps legal chief after MasterCard ruling
Fifa has fired its top lawyer in charge of marketing contracts, after a New York district judge ruled it had acted wrongly in sponsorship negotiations with MasterCard. Fifa dismissed marketing head of legal Tom Houseman, along with commercial directors Robert Lampman, Stefan Schuster and Jérôme Valcke. Houseman led Fifa’s rights protection programme during the 2006 […]