Harold Alfred Mayne-Nicholls Secul (born 27 July 1961) is a Chilean journalist and former football administrator who was president of the National Professional Football Association (ANFP) and of the Chilean Football Federation (FFCh). He was also a FIFA official. On 6 July 2015, he was banned for seven years by FIFA Ethics Committee from all football-related activity, after being the chair of evaluation for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup and openly criticizing the decision to hold the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. On 2 March 2017, he appealed against the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. which finally decided that there was no real misconduct and lifted the sentence. Studies and Family He was born in Antofagasta in 1961, the son of a Chilean father of English descent from Iquique and a descendant of Croatians from Punta Arenas. He is married to the journalist Eugenia Fernández Ibarra, with whom he has five children. He studied at the Colegio Yugoslavo, San José de Antofagasta English School and at Saint George's College, in Vitacura, Santiago. In the mid-1980s he studied journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and was selected as a soccer player from the PUC. During his studies he was nominated for the student center of his career, presiding over the independent list, which he lost against Esteban Valenzuela. In 1988 he obtained his postgraduate degree in Business Administration from the Adolfo Ibáñez University. He is a recognized fan of Antofagasta Sports Club, of which he has been a member since 1973. Mayne-Nicholls is of Cornish and Croatian descent. Sports Management Career After graduating, he dedicated himself to sports journalism and photography, which he already did in his student days. He worked for various media outlets in his country, such as La Nación, El Mercurio and La Tercera newspapers and Triunfo and Minuto 90 sports magazines. In 1986 he joined Asicom in the Public Relations area. In 1987 he went on to work as a public relations and communications officer for Epson Chile, a position he held until 1989. In 1991 he worked as a press officer for the Copa América, held that year in Chile. At the beginning of March 2011, he created the Ganamos Todos Foundation, dedicated to promote sports and physical activity. From August to December 2011, he completed an internship in the Sports Department of the University of Notre Dame, South Bend,