The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a judgment by FIFA’s ethics committee to expel Adamu from football until October 2013.
Adamu was secretly filmed by British undercover reporters asking for $800,000 (?600,000) to influence his World Cup vote. He said the money would pay for artificial pitches in his native Nigeria.
The scandal implicated Adamu and five other senior officials, and plunged FIFA into turmoil weeks before the December 2010 votes.
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