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Platini ‘kicked in the teeth’ by Federation Internationale de Football Association ban
The FIFA has informed the UEFA leader that the Michel Platini appeal of his 8-year ban from soccer can’t be made directly in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) by bypassing the appeals process.
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Both Blatter and Platini are sure to take their appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, with decisions possible in late January or early February.
Platini said: “I will fight”.
“It can analyse thousands of accounts very quickly and flag up any suspect transactions”, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the Blatter-Platini case. There doesn’t seem to be any way you can get to them because of all those big corporations behind him.
Former UEFA general secretary Gerhard Aigner echoed Kanner’s stance in an interview with United Kingdom radio station TalkSport, where he suggested the concentration of power in Blatter’s office at Federation Internationale de Football Association had badly undermined an organisation in need of wide-sweeping changes.
France’s sports minister publicly questioned the legitimacy of FIFA’s ethics committee after it imposed an eight-year ban that seriously endangers fellow-Frenchman Michel Platini’s prospects of becoming the next head of the world football body.
In more specific terms, Platini and Blatter have been given suspensions due to an alleged transfer of two million Swiss francs.
“Jerome Valcke unequivocally denies the fabricated and outrageous accusations” related to the ticket sales, Berke said when his client was first suspended.
“For me, the tickets had nothing to do with it. It was his personal attitude”.
“President Blatter is eager to present his arguments to the appeal committee”, his Zurich-based lawyer Lorenz Erni and Virginia-based counsel Richard Cullen said in a joint statement. “We will pay you part of it later on”, Blatter said about the payment in 2011 that coincided with Platini’s decision not to challenge Blatter for president.
U.S. authorities are investigating claims that former CONCACAF president Jack Warner was paid a $10 million (9.1 million euros) bribe to help South Africa win the bid to host the 2010 World Cup, among other charges.
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He said: “It has been rigged to tarnish my name by bodies I know well and who for me are bereft of all credibility or legitimacy”. “But most of these people are now accused – not yet convicted, but accused – or in prison”. “It doesn’t bother me to talk about the past, because the past was more brilliant for me than the future”.