Urs Linsi (born 29 June 1949) is a Swiss financial manager and sports official who served as Secretary General of FIFA (2002–2007) and chairman of Grasshopper Club Zürich (2010–2011).
[4] In mid-2002, he presented FIFA's financial report at an extraordinary Congress in Seoul, and played a key role in Sepp Blatter's re-election campaign.
[8] In July 2007, FIFA announced Linsi's dismissal, which Swiss media interpreted as a "pawn sacrifice" for Blatter's re-election.
[11] In March 2016, the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm's report on the German Football Association's bid for the 2006 World Cup examined Linsi's role in a controversial €6.7 million payment to Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus in April 2005.
[15] Linsi could be facing trial for aiding tax evasion, in which the aforementioned transaction allegedly helped to repay a loan linked to Franz Beckenbauer and routed through a FIFA account.