Blatter and Platini have also been fined £33,700 ($40,000) and £54,000 ($80,000) respectively.
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The ethics judges ruled that Blatter broke FIFA Code of Ethics rules on conflicts of interest, breach of loyalty and offering gifts, while Platini broke rules on conflict of interest and loyalty.
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In Paris, French football legend Michel Platini said he will go to sports and civil courts in a bid to overturn an eight year ban ordered by Fifa.
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Platini was once the frontrunner to replace Blatter. Blatter was already planning to step down on February 26 when a new president is due to be elected.
Platini was tipped as a future leader of football’s world governing body and is a three-time European Footballer of the Year.
He also saved a few words for himself, saying, “I’m also sorry about me”.
Unshaven and sporting a plaster over his right cheek, Blatter was in defiant mood at a news conference he had called in advance of the punishments being made public.
“You can identify me as an optimist”, he said. “We didn’t know. I presume that he will now to go appeal as well, but I would think is the end for both him and Blatter”. I say that because celebrate humanity by football was the slogan of 2010 and was created by this great humanist Nelson Mandela. Blatter and Platini were provisionally suspended in October after Swiss prosecutors started a criminal investigation into the 2011 cash transfer.
“We took an early decision to support Mr Platini”, Dyke said.
“The decision is no surprise to me. I am sorry that I am still a punching ball [sic]”, said Blatter.
“FIFA’s Ethics Committee is created to smear my name and which today I deny its very legitimacy and credibility”.
A statement from UEFA said: “UEFA is extremely disappointed with this decision, which nevertheless is subject to appeal”. The United States Department of Justice has spent years investigating the organization, and have arrested and charged over 30 Federation Internationale de Football Association officials in two separate raids in May and November.
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The sport’s two most powerful men were banned from the sport for ethics violations, leaving the global game leaderless as it struggles with a swirl of corruption cases.
