MOSCOW (Sputnik) — UEFA President Michel Platini has lodged an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the decision of the FIFA Appeal Committee that stipulated a six-year ban from football, the judicial body said Wednesday.
"In appealing to the CAS, Michel Platini seeks to annul the decisions taken by the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee and by the FIFA Appeal Committee which lead to him being declared ineligible to take part in football-related activity at national and international level for six years," the CAS said in a statement.
On December 21, 2015, 60-year-old Platini was banned along with former FIFA President Joseph Blatter by FIFA’s Independent Ethics Committee adjudicatory chamber from any football-related activities for a period of eight years over corruption allegations.
Their bid to appeal the ban only resulted in a two-year reduction for each on February 24.
