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The European Football Union (Uefa) has banned Nurlan Ibrahimov from Azerbaijani champion Qarabag Agdam for life from "all football activities".
The control, ethics and disciplinary chamber came to this judgment, according to a statement from Uefa.
In addition, the club, where Ibrahimov works as press officer, was fined 100,000 euros.
The Uefa therefore wants to campaign for the world association Fifa that Ibrahimov's exclusion is imposed worldwide.
The decision confirmed a preliminary judgment from early November.
Ibrahimov had called for the killing of Armenians on social media.
The Armenian Football Association had lodged a complaint and called for the club to be excluded from European competition.
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been in a conflict over the South Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh for decades.
In the latest war that began on September 27, Azerbaijan reclaimed large parts of the territory it had lost in the early 1990s.
The country saw itself supported by its "brother state" Turkey.
Armenia sees Russia as its protecting power.
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