FIFA bans Blatter, Platini for eight years

December 21, 2015 14:14

Fifa's Sepp Blatter and Uefa's Michel Platini banned from football for eight years. Fifa's ethics judge delivered the verdicts against the pair today.

Fifa's ethics investigators want both president Blatter and his Uefa counterpart Platini to have life bans. But speaking to Swiss newspaper Blick on Sunday, Blatter said the corruption charge against him had been dropped.

A spokesman for Hans Joachim Eckert, Fifa's ethics head, declined to comment. Blatter, however, faces other charges, including mismanagement. Both he and Platini have denied any wrongdoing, and insist they have not breached Fifa's code of ethics. -- BBC.

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