Council president Jose Ramon Lete says Villar and vice president Juan Padron, also arrested last today, were suspended for one year. Spain's highest sports authority has suspended the president of the Spanish Football Federation a week after his arrest in an anti-corruption investigation. Council president Jose Ramon Lete says Villar and vice president Juan Padron, also arrested last today, were suspended for one year. Villar's uninterrupted 29-year-reign of the federation ends one week after he, his son Gorka Villar, Padron, and another football official, Ramon Hernandez, were detained by police during raids of the national federation headquarters and other properties. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna July 25, 2017 19:07 UTC