Banned Amos Adamu dumps football, guns for priesthood

Recently banned former FIFA and CAF Executive Committee member, Dr. Amos Adamu has retired from football administration to now focus on service to God.

Adamu made this known in an exclusive chat with Football Live – an announcement that is coming after the embattled 64-year-old got a 2-year ban by the world governing body.

“I’m through with football politics. My focus has changed, I want to devote my time to do other things, I want to serve God, so I’m back to the school of Theology,” said Adamu.

Read Also: FIFA bans Amos Adamu for 2years

Adamu used to be Nigeria’s top ranked football official in the international bodies, but was banned from all football-related activities for three years – November 2010 to October 2013 – and fined 10,000 Swiss Franc after he was found guilty of bribery by FIFA, and now faces a fresh sentence.

And less than four years after returning from the ban, Adamu was again handed a 2-year ban by the world football governing body over breaches of its code of ethics, as announced in a press release on the FIFA website last Tuesday.

“The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert, has decided to ban the former football official Amos Adamu for two years from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level,” FIFA stated.

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