Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each banned for eight years by the FIFA ethics panel Dec. 21 in a stunning takedown of world soccer's most powerful leaders.
FIFA President Blatter and onetime protege Platini, the president of UEFA, were kicked out for conflict of interest and disloyalty to FIFA for a payment deal that Swiss criminal investigators are looking at.
In 2011, Platini took $2 million (¥240 million) of FIFA money approved by Blatter as uncontracted salary, which the ethics panel said was not legal. (AP)
国際サッカー連盟(FIFA)の倫理委員会は12月21日、汚職疑惑のゼップ・ブラッター会長とミシェル・プラティニ副会長に8年の資格停止処分を科した。
The Japan Times ST: January 1, 2016