epa04779639 (FILE) A file picture dated 29 May 2015 of FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke during the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland. The New York Times reported on 01 June 2015, that the high-ranking FIFA official who allegedly made a 10-million-dollar payment central to a US probe into soccer corruption is believed to be FIFA President Joseph Blatter's right-hand man Jerome Valcke. The FIFA Secretary General is not named as a defendant and has not been accused of any wrongdoing. EPA/PATRICK B. KRAEMER