FIFA has extended a two-year ban on Nigerian footballer Chizoba Christopher Iyikwobe worldwide, the Nigeria Football Federation has announced.
Chizoba was initially banned from football by the Appeals Committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation in September last year.
A letter dated 4 February 2022 and signed by the General Secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation, Abu Nayeem Shohaq, and addressed to the General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation, conveyed the decision of the Chairperson of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, Jorge Ivan Palacio, which was taken on 3 February.
FIFA’s letter on the decision of its Disciplinary Committee, which was signed by Carlos Schneider, Director of FIFA Judicial Bodies, recalled that the Appeals Committee of the Bangladesh Football Federation had confirmed the two-year ban on Chizoba on 26 September 2021, and the Disciplinary Committee’s decision has now made the ban global.
A former player of Arambagh KS in the Bangladeshi league, Chizoba was sanctioned for breach of contract after leaving the club.
The 30-year-old striker has spent most of his career in India and Bangladesh and has played for several clubs in those Asian countries.
With the global extension of the ban, Chizoba cannot be involved in football anywhere in the word for the next two years. He will be 31 in July.
