Blatter, Platini suspended from soccer by FIFA's ethics body

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his possible successor, European soccer chief UEFA Michel Platini, have been provisionally suspended for 90 days, the ethics committee of football's global governing body said on Thursday.

"During this time, the above individuals are banned from all football activities on a national and international level," FIFA's ethics committee said in a statement on Thursday.

It also handed out a 90-day suspension to FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, who had already been sent on leave, and banned former FIFA Vice-President Chung Mong-joon for six years and fined him 100,000 Swiss francs ($103,000).

The moves against the most powerful men in world soccer dramatically deepened the turmoil at FIFA as it faces criminal investigations in Switzerland and the United States into corruption at the highest levels of the game.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/us-soccer-fifa-blatter-idUSKCN0S217O20151008

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Sports | Thu Oct 8, 2015 7:00am EDT
ZURICH

[Orrex]

1. FIFA Addresses Blatter Control Problem

[Dr. Strange]

4. That explains all of the yellow cards.

[Orrex]

5. We have a winnah!

[Grimelle]

2. What a joke

FIFA’s ethics committee, headed by Blatter buddy Klaus Stöhlker, has recommended a 90-day suspension of president Sepp Blatter...
Oh! and Platini too.
...
Like El Chapo being guarded in prison by men on his payroll.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. FIFA has an ethics committee?

Is not that like Hell having a fire department, run by Satan?

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. Like foxes having a Henhouse Security Division. (nt)

[musiclawyer]

7. The sponsors are revolting most likely

This might be the first step in undoing the crooked Quatar WC award