Description
Added on the 21/12/2015 13:28:39 - Copyright : Reuters EN
FIFA President Sepp Blatter and European soccer boss Michel Platini have been banned from soccer for eight years. Paul Chapman reports.
The two men were found to 'abuse' their positions according to the Fifa ethics committee. Although Blatter confessed to feel very sorry for himself on Monday, the general public doesn't support him.
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the chiefs of world and European football, arrive for a two-week trial at Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona over a suspected fraudulent payment that shook the sport and torpedoed their time at the top, following a mammoth investigation that began in 2015 and lasted six years. IMAGES
Moscow, 9 dic (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Yuri Kochetkov) The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday unanimously decided to ban Russia from global sporting competitions for four years for manipulating laboratory data earlier in the year, meaning the country will miss both the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Russian athletes who are proven to be clean will be able to compete under a neutral flag, according to a WADA statement issued after an executive committee meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. FOOTAGE OF YURY GANUS, DIRECTOR OF THE RUSADA, PAVEL KOLBKOV, MINISTER FOR SPORTS, AND STANISLAV POZDNYAKOV, PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE.
The International Tennis Federation bans Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova for two years after testing positive for banned drug meldonium.
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
