ZURICH – Soccer agent Leon Angel, whose clients include England coach Roy Hodgson, was warned by FIFA about his future conduct on Friday after breaking rules in a transfer involving Brazil goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.
Angel breached two clauses in its players’ agents regulations during the deal which took Gomes to Tottenham from PSV Eindhoven in July 2008, FIFA said.
The case was referred by the English Football Association to FIFA in June 2011. Less than a year later, Angel worked with the F.A. to help negotiate Hodgson’s contract to become England coach.
Angel said he would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, because the case involved an administrative technicality.
FIFA’s disciplinary committee fined Angel 7,000 Swiss francs ($7,630) and ordered him to pay costs for the disciplinary process.