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Michel Platini resigns as Uefa president
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Michel Platini will resign as Uefa president after failing to overturn his ban at the court of arbitration for sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years.
Platini
said he will now step down from the Uefa
position he has held since 2007, which also gave him Fifa vice-president
status.
Cas
effectively removed Platini from world football by ensuring his ban runs beyond
his current Uefa mandate, which expires in March 2019. The court said in a
statement that the ban “corresponds to the duration of a presidential term”.
“I
take note of today’s decision from Cas but I see it as a profound injustice,”
Platini said in a statement. “This decision inflicts a suspension on me that,
as luck would have it, stops me from contesting the next election for the Fifa
presidency.
“As
agreed with the national associations, I am resigning from my duties as Uefa
president to pursue my battle in front of the Swiss courts to prove my
innocence in this case.
“Life
is always full of surprises: I am henceforth available to experience more of
them.”
The
court ruled that Platini was guilty of conflict of interest for taking a £1.25m
payment from Fifa approved by Sepp Blatter in 2011.
The
money was uncontracted extra salary for working as Blatter’s presidential
adviser from 1999-2002, and was largely unknown until it was revealed by Swiss
federal prosecutors last September.
The
Cas panel “was not convinced by the legitimacy of the 2,000,000 Swiss francs
payment, which was only recognised by Mr. Platini and Mr. Blatter,” the
statement said.
Platini
got the money “more than eight years after the end of his work relations, was
not based on any document established at the time of the contractual relations
and did not correlate with the alleged unpaid part of his salary,” the court
said. In deciding the ban, the judges said Platini’s attitude in court was a
factor in the verdict.
The
ruling cited “the absence of any repentance and the impact that this matter has
had on Fifa’s reputation”.
Fifa
was also criticized by the court for knowing about the irregular payment for
four years before the independent ethics committee opened an investigation. The
case ended Platini’s hopes of replacing Blatter at Fifa.
The
Uefa executive committee will meet next week in Basel, Switzerland, to discuss
replacing Platini. An election is likely in mid-September at meetings of
European soccer leaders in Athens, Greece. Blatter is awaiting a Cas hearing to
challenge his six-year ban.
Blatter
and Platini were provisionally suspended by the Fifa ethics committee last
October, then banned for eight years.
Fifa’s appeal panel cut two years off their sanctions in February as reward for
their long service to the sport.
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