Platini and Blatter are mad at FIFA
26.02.2016
Although the penalties for the removal of all football operations were reduced by two years, the former President of FIFA Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini were furious at the decision of the Appeal Committee of the world soccer organization.
Both vowed that he will appeal to the last possible instance in the sports world, the arbitral tribunal in Lausanne. They claim they are innocent and even then to turn and to civil Court, if this instance does not justify them.
'Charges against me have absolutely no merit. They were taken out of context and are constructed in a surreal way based on my speeches during the hearing and are construed so as to frame me.'
'But I will go through each possible instance, rather than terminate with the Court in Lausanne. I will go to the very end, to clear my name.', said Platini after the decision of the Commission.
He and Blatter have been removed for six years from football because of a payment of 2 million euros commission from the Swiss to the Frenchman in 2011 for work done at the end of the last century.
'I am very disappointed in this decision and will certainly appeal to the sports Court in Lausanne. My appeal is not going to stop here.', said Blatter.
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