In an attempt to get ahead of the story, Michel Platini‘s lawyer, Thibaud d’Alès, said the investigatoryarm of FIFA’s ethics committee has recommended a lifetime ban for his client, the suspended UEFA president, and the Guardian reported suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter should receive the same sanctionin connection with the $2 million payment made to […]
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FIFA Opens Cases Against Blatter, Platini
FIFA ethics judge Joachim Eckert on Monday formally opened cases against FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini for alleged financial wrongdoing. Next,both Blatter and Platini, who are each serving 90-day suspensions pending Eckert’s ruling, will be allowed to submit their positions including any evidence with regard to the final reports ofthe investigatory […]
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Platini Appeals FIFA Suspension to CAS
The European Union’s Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday confirmed that UEFA President Michel Platini has appealed against the provisional 90-day ban he was handedby FIFA that has kept him out of the presidential race for soccer’s scandal-plagued governing body. Both Platini and FIFA President Sepp Blatter were handed 90-day bans inOctober over […]
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Blatter and Platini lose appeals on suspensions
FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA resident Michel Platini have had their appeals against 90-day bans rejected byFIFA”s appeal committee. They intend to take their cases to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. FIFA’s ethics committee suspended them in connection with an investigation into corruption claimsagainst them. The case involving Blatter and Platini together relates […]
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Platini gets backing from FIFA kingmaker
Kuwaiti Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the sports kingmaker who joined the FIFA executive committee this year, says Asian Football Confederation presidentSheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa will withdraw from the FIFA presidential race if suspended Michel Platini isallowed back in the race. Platini is suspended for 90 days and his candidacy won’t be examined by FIFA’s […]
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What They're Saying: Michel Platini
“Today, I have the sense of being a knight from the Middle Ages, in front of a castle. I am trying to get in to bring football back, but instead I’m having boiling oil poured on myhead.” — UEFA president Michel Platini, who is suspended from campaigning for the FIFA presidency — indeed, from all […]
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U.S. Gulf politics, the FIFA presidency and Bahraini sheikh who wants the job
If Sunil Gulati was Michel Platini and Barack Obama was Nicolas Sarkozy, U.S. Soccer might be voting for Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa for FIFA president. But Gulatiisn’t Platini and Obama isn’t Sarkozy, and Gulati won’t be seeking out Obama’s advice on who to vote for the next FIFA president who will be elected […]
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FIFA's Next President: Assessing the Field
On Monday, FIFA stopped accepting candidates to replace Sepp Blatter as the scandal-tainted governing body’s president. The field stands at eight challengers, although it willlikely be reduced to seven, as UEFA President Michel Platini, the former frontrunner for the job, is currently suspended after he and president Blatter (also suspended) entered into a $2million “gentleman’s […]
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La Liga president rips direction of FIFA political fight
Javier Tebas, president of Spain’s La Liga, added his name to the list of those who don’t believe FIFA’s current path — electing a new president from withinits current ranks of senior politicians — will work. “If there is to be a cultural change, it can’t be carried out by people that have held roles […]
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Business as usual at FIFA? New presidential favorite faces scrutiny
Nothing is ever what it seems with FIFA. On the day its executive committee met for the first time without suspended president Sepp Blatter, to discusswide-ranging reform proposals, transparency was lacking. And calls to postpone the election for a new president were rebuffed, but it is anything but clear who has the support — and […]