Fabio Paratici has had his 30-month ban from football activity, initially imposed by the Italian FA, applied worldwide by FIFA to place Tottenham Hotspur's search for a manager into chaos.
The Spurs managing director of football was implicated in a false accounting scandal at former club Juventus, leading to suspensions being handed down to a dozen key officials including owner Andrea Agnelli and Pavel Nedved.
Paratici, 50, is meant to be coordinating the north London club's recruitment of a new head coach having sacked Antonio Conte earlier this week. Yet the financial malpractice ban is now set to prohibit him from being involved in that process. There is no suggestion of any wrongdoing during his time at Spurs, whom he joined in June 2021, and Juventus have continuously and vehemently denied the charges.
