FIFA and UEFA Presidents suspended
Federation International Football Association (FIFA) President Sepp Blatter has been suspended from all football for eight years along with the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) President Michel Platini, its ethics commitee has announced. Neither Blatter nor Platini attended the hearing in Zurich where they would learn their fate after an investigation into a payment of 2m Swiss Francs [£1.3m] from Blatter to Platini in 2011, which was said to have been for work carried out between 1998 and 2002, although their lawyers did attend the hearing. However, the adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee announced today morning that Blatter and Platini had been banned from all football-related activities for eight years with immediate effect. Fifa released a 40-page statement explaining the investigation. It read: “The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee head by Mr Hans-Joachim Eckert has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter, President of Fifa, for eight years and