Switzerland’s highest court has rejected former UEFA chief Michel Platini’s appeal against a four-year suspension from football, ending his efforts to overturn the penalty, his lawyer said Thursday.
Platini, 61, “is obviously very disappointed”, his lawyer Vincent Solari told AFP in an email. Platini was hit with the penalty over a $2 million payment he received in 2011, authorised by then FIFA chief Sepp Blatter for work he did a decade earlier, with no contract to show for the deal. He was initially hit with an eight-year ban by the FIFA Ethics Committee in late 2015, at the height of an unprecedented scandal that upended world football, but his suspension was later cut to six years upon appeal.
Platini, 61, “is obviously very disappointed”, his lawyer Vincent Solari told AFP in an email. Platini was hit with the penalty over a $2 million payment he received in 2011, authorised by then FIFA chief Sepp Blatter for work he did a decade earlier, with no contract to show for the deal. He was initially hit with an eight-year ban by the FIFA Ethics Committee in late 2015, at the height of an unprecedented scandal that upended world football, but his suspension was later cut to six years upon appeal.
