This decision is ineligibility for Michel Platini, since he will not have time to appeal by October 26, for applications date for the presidency of the organization . The decision sounds like a stroke of thunder in sport. An unprecedented sweep of the entire hierarchy of world football.
The French 60 is the one who had the most to lose. It had to be one that would change FIFA. Whoever definitively turn the page of the Blatter era and its scandals. It will not happen. Michel Platini ultimately will not stand. With his 90-day suspension, impossible for him to file his candidacy October 26. Wanting to stand as a candidate after Blatter, former adviser of Switzerland has been overtaken by history. Anticipating the decision of the Ethics Commission, Mr Platini had nevertheless indicated that it was still running for president of FIFA. “ This Thursday morning, I handed over the letters of support essential to my application ,” said he said.
The triple gold ball is involved in criminal proceedings by the Public Prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation (MPC) against Joseph Blatter. Justice criticizes the Valais including a “unfair payment,” made in February 2011, 2 million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) to French president the UEFA (UEFA) “allegedly for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002.”
At the time, Mr Platini officiated as ” technical advisor “Mr Blatter. His office was not based in Zurich, where FIFA headquarters, but near the Palais-Royal in Paris. “It was a full-time job,” he defended September 28 a letter of justification to the 54 member associations of UEFA. “ J have received a portion of the salary agreed between 1998 and 2002. Mr. Blatter had told me at the beginning of my job to advise that it is not possible to pay the all of my emoluments immediately, especially because of the financial situation of FIFA at that time. All the money received at the time was reported to the competent authorities “
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- Jospeh Blatter, the final fall?
Currently employed since 1998 as head of FIFA, Joseph Blatter, 79, should not be able to carry out the last yard he had set, celkui of his estate. The Valais is the subject of criminal proceedings initiated by the Public Prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation (MPC) “ to suspicion of mismanagement and – alternative – embezzlement “. The MPC also reproached “unfair payment of 2 million Swiss francs” (1.8 million euros) to Michel Platini.
He joined the FIFA in 1975 as director of development programs, Blatter was re-elected for a fifth term, Friday, May 29, at the 65th congress of the organization. He gathered 133 votes on its name in the first round, against 73 for the Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Hussein, supported by Michel Platini.
Four days later, on June 2, Blatter announced at surprise, he would resign from his post after a “extraordinary elective congress” , scheduled between December 2015 and March 2016. At the time, FIFA has been shaken by scandals. On May 27, in Zurich, on the orders of American justice, seven of its leaders, including its vice president Jeffrey Webb, a powerful patron of the Confederation of North America, Central and Caribbean (CONCACAF), were arrested, the day before the Congress of the International Federation.
“Although members of FIFA have given me this mandate, this mandate does not support all football “, regrets Switzerland, in announcing his resignation. He hopes at that time “exercise [its] duties as FIFA president until the organization [of] next elections” .
The news of the suspension of Switzerland shook his relatives. “We are all extremely sad! A suspension as temporary as it is, without giving the authorization and the opportunity to leave freely express ‘accused’ is incomprehensible! “, said a member of the bodyguards of Mr. Blatter
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- Jerome Valcke an expected penalty
The French Jérôme Valcke, former number two of FIFA, he also gets a 90-day suspension. It’s not a surprise: he had been “relieved of his duties with immediate effect” LE17 September
These are the accusations of former Israeli footballer Benny Alon. which have been fatal to Mr. Valcke. Mr. Alon was the same day, invited several journalists to show them a selection of emails and other compromising confidential contracts for Jérôme Valcke. Mr. Alon Valcke accused of wanting to enjoy a ticket resale system at the 2014 World Cup held in Brazil
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- Chung Mong-joon, struck six years
Former Vice President FIFA (1994-2011) and declared candidate to succeed Joseph Blatter, the heir to the Hyundai industrial empire had explained, October 6, he risked being banned for a period of fifteen years by the court internal proceedings. The billionaire and former president of the Federation of South Korea (1993-2009) was targeted for having sent a letter in October 2010, members of the executive committee of FIFA, of which he was a member.
In this letter, he proposed to his peers the creation of an international fund for football (GFF) and the participation of South Korea to support football projects worldwide, totaling $ 777 million up ‘in 2022. At the time, the country Chung Mong-joon of postulated for the award of the World 2022, eventually won by Qatar.
Chung Mong-joon is listed as one of the opponents fiercest of Mr. Blatter, which it considers to “should have been banned for life” . He denounced the Ethics Commission as “the killer Blatter pledges”
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