FIFA's long-time legal director Marco Villiger has
left football's ruling body after a decade, the New York Times
reported on Monday.
Villiger, deputy secretary general since 2016 under new president
Gianni Infantino, was the last top official within the organization
who had served under former boss Joseph Blatter.
As legal director Villiger was the FIFA link to United States and
Swiss authorities and their corruption investigations which started
with arrests of top football officials on the eve of the 2015 FIFA
congress in Zurich and are ongoing.
Villiger said in a FIFA statement: "The time for me has come to turn
the page to a new chapter, seeking for new challenges."