Platini To Step Down As UEFA President

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Platini To Step Down As UEFA President

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Michel Platini will step down as UEFA president after his six-year ban from football was reduced to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).Platini was initially banned for eight years by the FIFA disciplinary committee over a £1.3m payment given to him by then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2011. Both men claimed the money was for work Platini did for Blatter between 1998-2002. His eight-year ban was reduced to six by the FIFA appeals committee, and it has been reduced further by two years by CAS.Platini had hoped to be cleared of all charges but the three-man CAS panel in Lausanne backed FIFA’s judgment that the payment was “unfair” and a “conflict of interests”.Platini will not be involved, formally or informally, in Euro 2016 which takes place in his homeland, France.Platini’s lawyers have confirmed the Frenchman will resign as UEFA president in the next few days.

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