March 18 – He may not be able to get his old job back but Sepp Blatter remains determined to clear his name in retirement.
As expected, the now-former FIFA president has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his six-year suspension from all football activities.
Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini last month had their respective appeal hearings after being banished in December over that infamous SFr2 million “disloyal payment” made to the Frenchman in 2011, with Blatter’s approval, for work carried out a decade earlier.
The pair’s suspensions were reduced by FIFA’s appeals committee from eight to six years, with their contributions to football a mitigating factor, but Platini took his case to CAS and Blatter has, as promised, followed suit.
Platini is also serving a six-year ban and lodged his appeal with CAS straight away in the hope of being able to resume his UEFA presidency before the European Championship finals in his homeland.
Blatter has vowed to “go to the end of my life to show that I’m innocent” and CAS said he and FIFA’s appeals committee would exchange written submissions, with a three-member panel then created before a hearing is held.
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