Uefa president Michel Platini has labelled members of Fifa’s ethics committee “pathetic” and suggested the timing of their decision to ban him from football was influenced by a desire to block him from becoming president of the sport’s governing body. Beckenbauer has denied wrongdoing.
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The Ethics Committee operates independently of FIFA; its members are appointed by the FIFA Congress and can not be members of any standing committees.
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“I have never cheated with money”, Blatter insisted, before claiming he still wielded authority in the sport.
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French Sports Minister Patrick Kanner said he still backed Platini, the favourite to succeed Blatter until he was suspended, and questioned whether he had been given a fair hearing. “I alone decide whether to open, conduct and conclude an investigation and on its result”.
The FIFA president was banned along with UEFA counterpart Michel Platini by FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee as a result of an alleged “disloyal payment” in 2011.
It’s a decision Blatter will be regretting, even if he had little control over a move requested by Federation Internationale de Football Association judge Hans-Joachim Eckert. All I remarked on, all I fought for, I have not done in vain. The FIFA ethics commission’s procedure against me is a true mockery.
Yesterday, Platini accused world football’s ethics committee of “sleeping” for four years before barring him from football.
But they would first have to go through the FIFA Appeal Committee in order to get their cases heard.
Mr Boyce has long called for the publication of the Garcia report – an internal FIFA investigation which looked at allegations of corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.
Blatter railed continually against this notion throughout an erratic briefing, where he regularly expressed frustration at being informed of his ban only after the news had broken in the media.
Asked if he felt sorry for them he replied: “I’m saddened is probably the word because at the end of the day I don’t like to see that happening to people who have given an very bad lot to sport”. He will no longer be allowed to enter the FIFA building, use official FIFA paper, give statements in behalf of FIFA or to talk officially about soccer on television.
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The world will be watching and it is only right that each candidate is scrutinised, both in terms of previous history and ideas, much in the same way that parliamentary candidates are in the run-up to elections.
