South African Football Association official Lindile Kika was banned by FIFA

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FIFA's Ethics Committee banned former South African Football fifa 16 ultimate team coins Association official Lindile Kika from soccer activities for six years on Wednesday, adding to a string of suspensions at the sport's governing physique.

Zurich-based FIFA has been in turmoil because May possibly over corruption allegations. But its ethics investigators are believed to regard match-fixing as the largest threat towards the sport as well as the toughest to combat.

Kika is a former head of referees and ex-member in the executive committee on the football association in South Africa, which hosted the 2010 Soccer Planet Cup.

The Ethics Committee said in a statement that the decision to ban him for six years was related to FIFA regulations on conduct, loyalty, duty of disclosure as well as other difficulties. It mentioned the ban requires impact straight away. A spokesman was not authorised to discuss particulars.

"The proceedings against Lindile Kika have been opened in November 2014 in relation to quite a few international friendly matches played in South Africa in 2010. The investigation was led by the chairman in the investigatory chamber in the Ethics Committee, Dr Cornel Borbely, in collaboration with all the FIFA Security Division," the statement read.

The security division, created in 2012, is responsible for "matters associated with the integrity and protection from the game itself in addition to matters regarding match manipulation," according to FIFA's site.

A earlier FIFA investigation had looked into South Africa's pre-World Cup matches against Thailand, Bulgaria, Colombia and Guatemala.

In 2012, FIFA handed SAFA a 500-page report that documented the activities of convicted Singapore-based match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organisation.

In May, 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives were indicted in the United states of america inside a criminal investigation into the allocation of media, marketing and advertising and sponsorship rights for soccer tournaments.

The scandal has spread throughout FIFA, which final Thursday handed president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini 90-day suspensions pending a formal investigation.

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce is eyeing a reunion with Kevin Nolan and has said he may sign the former Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United and West Ham United captain.

Nolan is a free of charge agent after following Allardyce out of West Ham and is eligible to move outside the transfer window.

"I must assess the squad and take it from there. Kevin and me go a long way back, as every person knows," Allardyce said after becoming unveiled as Sunderland's manager on Tuesday.

"Nolan is an addition I could look at inside the future, I may perhaps pick to enter down that line but in the moment it really is about providing the players I've got right here an opportunity to show what they are able to do," he added.

Nolan and Allardyce possess a extended history together plus the manager produced the midfielder his captain throughout their long stint at Bolton Wanderers.

Allardyce also managed Nolan briefly at Newcastle ahead of signing the midfielder for West Ham and handing him the armband.

Nolan's good results with Newcastle throughout his 2-1/2 years in the club has not endeared him to Sunderland's fans.

He scored a hat-trick in a north-east derby against Sunderland in 2010 and has shared a tempestuous relationship with their supporters for many years.

The 33-year-old has been education with fourth-tier side Leyton Orient because leaving the Hammers.

Sunderland welcome Newcastle to the Stadium of Light in their very first Premier League derby on the season on Oct. 25, right after they travel to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.