FIFA applied pressure against Vitaly Mutko council ban - ex-official
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Vitaly Mutko was directly implicated in the state-sponsored doping scandal in Russia.
Former FIFA official Miguel Maduro has said he banned Vitaly Mutko from football's ruling council in March after resisting strong pressure from the FIFA leadership.
Maduro -- who chaired the governance committee of world football's governing body before being removed from the post in May -- prevented Mutko, a Russian deputy prime minister who is head of the 2018 World Cup organising committee, from seeking re-election to the council on grounds of political interference.
He told a committee of British...