‘FIFA has lost all credibility’ – Platini lawyer

‘FIFA has lost all credibility’ – Platini lawyer

‘FIFA has lost all credibility’ – Platini lawyer

The lawyer representing Michel Platini told AFP
on Saturday that FIFA had “lost all credibility”
after the ethics committee of world football’s
governing body requested sanctions against the
Frenchman and Sepp Blatter.
“It is a troubling coincidence the day
after our appeal to the Court of
Arbitration for Sport against Michel
Platini’s provisional suspension,”
Thibaud d’Ales, representing French
FIFA presidential hopeful Platini, told
AFP.
“It’s farcical. It would be laughable if we
were not talking about the future of the
biggest non-governmental institution in
the world.”
The investigatory chamber of FIFA’s
independent ethics watchdog announced
earlier on Saturday that it had submitted
a final report to the body’s judgement
arm, which will weigh up the
recommendations for sanctions.
UEFA chief Platini, who was last month
handed a provisional 90-day ban, along
with Blatter, by the ethics committee,
risks seeing his hopes of succeeding
Blatter as FIFA president permanently
derailed.