1.   Other players involved in the false passports scandal include Internazionale star Uruguayan Alvaro Recoba and ex-Roma player Brazilian Fabio Junior.

2.   FIFA president Joseph Blatter has been quoted as saying that the passport scandal which rocked French and Italian soccer last season was as bad as doping for the sport.

3.   In June, he was banned from playing club soccer for a year in a passport scandal that rocked European soccer.

4.   Several Latin American players in the Italian league have been involved in a false passport scandal which broke out last year.

5.   Saint-Etienne is caught up in a passport scandal and has recently changed coaches.

6.   The report did not raised any allegations against Bird, who was exonerated on any involvement in the passport scandal.

7.   Three other civil servants apparently linked to the scheme were suspended in December, when the passport scandal broke.