Football's ruling body FIFA has banned Marc Overmars from football activities around the world for one year in connection with inappropriate behaviour, extending an original sanction limited to his Dutch home country. FIFA said its disciplinary committee extended a two-year ban, one of them suspended, imposed by a Dutch tribunal "to a worldwide effect" upon a Dutch football federation request. Former Netherlands winger Overmars, who played for clubs including Ajax Amsterdam, Barcelona and Arsena
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