10 January,2016 12:55 AM IST | | AFP
FIFA's ethics tribunal said on Saturday it had provided Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with the reasons for its decision to ban them from football for eight years, clearing the way for them to appeal against the decision
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
Geneva: FIFA's ethics tribunal said on Saturday it had provided Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with the reasons for its decision to ban them from football for eight years, clearing the way for them to appeal against the decision.
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
"The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee... has notified Mr Joseph S Blatter and Mr Michel Platini of the grounds for the decisions passed in December 2015," the body said in a statement. Platini's lawyer Thibaud d'Ales said the UEFA president had indeed received the reasons behind the ban.
In December, the ethics tribunal banned the FIFA president and vice president from football for eight years, saying they had abused their positions over a $2 million payment made to Platini in 2011 for work carried out between 1999 & 2002.
