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ZURICH (AP) — FIFA banned a senior African soccer official for 10 years on Wednesday for financial wrongdoing Cheap Germany Soccer Team Uniform , including taking funds from a campaign tackling Ebola.FIFA said its ethics judges banned Musa Bility, a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee, for 10 years and fined him 500,000 Swiss francs ($507,200).In December 2015, Bility was blocked as a FIFA presidential candidate after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld a ruling that he failed an integrity check. That election was won two months later by current president Gianni Infantino.The Liberian businessman’s ban from all soccer duties was announced days after he said he would appeal to sport’s highest court against CAF’s FIFA-backed plan to send its top administrator from Zurich to oversee the troubled African soccer body.The court in Lausanne www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/italy , Switzerland, confirmed Wednesday it had registered Bility’s appeal.FIFA’s ethics committee has been formally investigating Bility since last May after soccer’s world body audited the financial accounts of the Liberian soccer federation (LFA), which he led.FIFA found conflicts of interest including “various payments made by the LFA to (and received from) entities owned by or connected to Mr. Bility and his family.”FIFA also identified “misappropriation of the funds granted under FIFA’s ’11 against Ebola’ campaign.” It was launched in 2014 by FIFA working with the World Health Organization, and included Cristiano Ronaldo helping raise awareness of the medical emergency in Africa.Bility was also suspected of misappropriating money from Liberia’s annual grants from FIFA which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.In recent weeks, after Bility was questioned by FIFA’s ethics investigators, he led resistance within CAF’s top committee against a plan for FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura Cheap Mexico Soccer Team Uniform , who is from Senegal, effectively running the Cairo-based organization on an initial six-month basis.Bility said the move breached CAF’s legal statutes and would be the basis of his appeal to sport’s highest court in Switzerland.It is unclear if he has legal standing to pursue that appeal while banned from all soccer duty.Bility can also go to CAS to challenge his 10-year ban. SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Teenage striker Erling Braut Haaland introduced himself to the Champions League with a hat trick Tuesday as Salzburg hammered Genk 6-2.The 19-year-old Norwegian gave Salzburg the lead in the second minute and added two more on counterattacks in the 34th and 45th. Haaland is the third-youngest player to score a Champions League hat trick after Raul in 1995 and Wayne Rooney in 2004.The son of former Leeds and Manchester City player Alf-Inge Haaland, he attracted attention in May when he scored nine goals for Norway in an under-20 World Cup game against Honduras. Haaland has torn up Austrian competitions since joining in the summer from Norway’s Molde, scoring 14 goals in eight league and cup games.Hwang Hee-chan scored one goal and set up two more for Salzburg, which is playing in Europe’s top club competition for the first time in 25 years and has U.S. coach Jesse Marsch in charge. Tuesday’s game against Genk was the highest-scoring Champions League game since Paris Saint-Germain beat Celtic 7-1 in 2017.The Austrian champion has not lost any of its last 19 European home games in deep runs through the Europa League knockout stages and has won nine of its last 10.Belgian champion Genk has played in the Champions League group stage twice before www.thetopsoccer.com/national-team-kit/portugal , in 2002 and 2011, but has failed to win any of its 13 games to date.