FIFA: Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini both formally suspended 8 years by the Ethics Committee

"The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee, chaired by Hans Joachim Eckert (GER) has banned Mr Joseph S. Blatter (SUI), president of FIFA, for eight years and Michel Platini (FRA), vice-president and member of the Executive Committee of FIFA and president of UEFA, for eight years from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) on a national and international level. The bans come into force immediately," announced FIFA on 21/12/2015.

The FIFA president and the UEFA president were both provisionally suspended for a period of 90 days from any activity in football by the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee on 08/10/2015. This body, which received the report of the investigatory chamber on 21/11/2015, said on 23/11/2015, that it would endeavour to announce the final decisions on the cases of Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini in December 2015.

Joseph Blatter appeared before the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee on 17/12/2015, which Michel Platini chose not to appear before the same body on 18/12/2015, though the UEFA president…