“International soccer was engulfed by a new crisis on Thursday as FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president MichelPlatini, the two most powerful men in soccer, were suspended from all soccer activities for 90 days by FIFA’s ethics committee, leaving the sport reeling from scandals across the globe with apower vacuum at the top.

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