It was at 9.39 clock on Monday morning, when the ethics committee of Fifa a portentous message published: the banishment of the two most powerful officials of the planet from the football business. Against Fifa president Sepp Blatter and his counterpart at UEFA, Michel Platini, an eight-year ban for all football activities was imposed.
The duo lose its Jobs and may undertake in the next eight years and no other office in the football business. Even a world-wide stadium ban is connected to the lock. This also means that Platini is allowed to visit a game itself at the European Championships in his homeland in the summer of 2016; the tournament should be the peak of his official career to be.
In the court’s opinion of the ethics committee, which projects the German Hans-Joachim Eckert as chief judge, they said, neither in Written Statements still at personal hearings unless Blatter and Platini managed to explain a dubious money transfer and thus to prove their innocence.
For undoing Blatter and Platini was a payment of Fifa to Platini in the amount of two million Swiss francs in 2011. Shortly before Platini a bill in this Height sent to the world governing body – for between 1999 and 2002 services rendered as a FIFA consultant. However, the former world-class player had already received at this time according to the contract about CHF 300,000 per year.
The two talk and act for weeks as a victim of a conspiracy, and shortly after the verdict went Blatter once again a show from, perhaps his last. In noble hotel “Sonnenberg”, only two hundred meters from the FIFA headquarters away, he stepped in front of the world press and proved that he has a slightly different view of the world than the majority of people.
“In the morning I was sad, now I’m combative. It’s not over yet. I’ll be back,” said Blatter. “That’s a shame. It provides me and Michel Platini as a liar out. You can not. Not after 40 years. That’s disrespectful, even against the judiciary. There is something wrong in the system.”
He apologized for being a punching bag and to be treated so poorly. He said he will fight for themselves. And for Fifa. He explained the whole affair had nothing to do with ethics. He congratulated the FC Barcelona to win the Club World Cup. He claimed to still be Fifa president. He spoke English, German, French and Spanish, and at the end he announced in English in the “Terminator” style: “. I’ll be back” It sounded combative, but also desperate.
where Blatter apparently not even playing a role, but it is entirely up to themselves. He thinks he’s innocent, he lived and did not act according to the standards that now, 40 years after he came to Fifa, suddenly are important. The Swiss went decades with leaders in and out, and when he met with the Pope, it was not clear for whom this was the greater honor now. Blatter traveled by private jet and dismounted in the best hotels.
This is actually the world of Sepp Blatter, the king of football.
Even in the past week hit him, Russian President Vladimir Putin before the Nobel Peace Prize. And then comes as a self-reformed and stocked by him body around the corner, telling something of ethics and brings him out of his office – can it really be? Blatter can not yet grasp, it drops straight from the sky like Icarus.
When the Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office had learned from the million payment, the Commission initiated in late September an investigation against Blatter for embezzlement. Platini was classified as so-called informant; which is incorporated under Swiss law, an intermediate figure between witness and the accused.
The Ethics Commission made then no difference, they both suspended on 8 October provisionally for 90 days. Blatter and Platini had already at that time their offices at the FIFA and UEFA rooms and protested her innocence ever since. The payment is based on an oral agreement that she was therefore lawful.
Blatter and Platini, the two alleged, had agreed before Platini took office as a consultant to the fact that a large part of the fee due to the financial situation of the Fifa only would be paid at a later time. That Platini presented the two million francs only nine years after its working end into account, can not be criticized.
“I have never cheated with money,” said Blatter. “To say this would be a good day for FIFA, a good day for football, would be completely wrong.”
The ethics investigators Fifa saw it differently. They found that the transaction did not even emerged from February 2011 the annual reports of the World Association. In addition, demand was already barred Platini. Noteworthy was also the time of payment: Only three months later Blatter was re-elected FIFA President, Platini’s support and thus the Uefa had the Swiss safely
Blatter thus secured the support in the presidential election with the payment to Mr Platini? Were the two million accordingly bribes? The ethics investigators saw it so she applied for a lifetime ban.
The adjudicatory chamber assessed the payment, however, inter alia as a conflict of interest and the unauthorized transfer or acceptance of gifts and other benefits. It therefore issued a lighter sentence. Neither Blatter nor Platini had informed the Executive Committee of FIFA and UEFA about the million deal.
The receipt for it they received on Monday morning. In their conduct in relation to the money transfer no obligation to an ethical attitude is to recognize, criticized the ethics committee. They also imposed fines against the two officials: Blatter has 50,000 Swiss francs paid (around 46,000 euros), Platini 80,000 (around 74,000 euros).
“I will appeal to the FIFA Appeal Committee and the International Sports Court Cas Insert” Blatter announced. “I hope Michel will do the same thing. Maybe I’ll bring the case before a civilian Swiss court. I will fight, for me, for the Fifa.”
It’s the last straw, to which the two officials may cling now. Evidence that anyone could take a different decision than the Fifa ethics, there is not. There seems to be over for Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini.
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