![]() ![]() FIFA's crisis has been mounting since May when US authorities issued charges against 14 FIFA officials and sports marketing executives over more than $150 million in bribes given for broadcasting and marketing contracts. The scion of the Hyundai family was found to have contravened rules while lobbying for South Korea's bid for the 2022 World Cup which was awarded to Qatar in a controversial 2010 vote.Ĭhung has threatened to take legal action over the ban. That could rule out Platini, although it would be up to FIFA's electoral committee to decide whether he can stand.Ĭhung, who was also fined 100,000 Swiss francs, would be automatically ruled out of the presidential race. The suspensions can be renewed for another 45 days when they run out in January, which would take the exclusion until just before the FIFA election to be held on February 26. The Frenchman earlier demanded an inquiry into the circumstances of the investigation against him. Platini, who has run UEFA, has been named in the investigation because of a two million dollar payment he received in 2011. The bans come into force immediately," said a statement.įIFA did not immediately say who would take over running the multi-billion dollar organisation.īlatter and French football legend Platini have faced mounting pressure since Swiss prosecutors started an investigation into the veteran FIFA president for criminal mismanagement. The four football powerbrokers "are banned from all football activities on a national and international level. ![]() On another chaotic day for football, FIFA's independent ethics committee also banned South Korean tycoon, Chung Mong-Joon, also a candidate for the FIFA presidency, for six years.įIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, already ordered to leave the world body over a separate ticketing scandal, was also suspended for 90 days. While it said the bans were "provisional", the action almost certainly signals the end of the reign of FIFA president Blatter and deals a major blow to UEFA leader Platini's hopes of taking over. FIFA’s ethics watchdog today suspended the two most powerful men in football, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, for 90 days in a sensational new blow to the sport's scandal-tainted governing body. ![]()
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