This information is used to compile reports and help us to improve the site. Analytical / Navigation Cookies : These cookies enable the site to function correctly and are used to gather information about how visitors use the site.Functionality Cookies: These are used to allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced features to improve your web experience.Strictly Necessary Cookies : These are essential in order to enable you to use certain features of the website, such as submitting forms on the website.The types of cookies used on this Site can be classified into one of three categories: It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the site. We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the Site’s functionality.
This document describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. Platini’s former general secretary at UEFA, Gianni Infantino, entered the FIFA race and won the election in 2016. Platini, who also lost his job as UEFA president following the ban, said the affair was a deliberate attempt to thwart his attempt to become FIFA president in 2015. Department of Justice into bribery, fraud and money-laundering at FIFA in 2015, which triggered Blatter’s resignation.īoth officials were banned in 2015 from soccer for eight years over the payment, although their bans were later reduced. The payment emerged following a huge investigation launched by the U.S. Platini, then president of European soccer association UEFA, was seen as having sway with European members who could influence the vote. When Blatter approved the payment, he was campaigning for re-election against Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar. Motives for the payment were unclear, although the two men met in 2010 and discussed the upcoming elections for the FIFA presidency in 2011. The rest of Platini’s one million per year salary was to be settled at a later date, Blatter said. Platini, 67, worked as a consultant between 19 with an annual salary of 300,000 Swiss francs – the most FIFA could afford because of money troubles the organisation had at the time, Blatter has told the court. The case meant Blatter ended his reign as FIFA president in disgrace and it wrecked Platini’s hopes of succeeding him after he was banned from football when the affair came to light.īlatter, 86, had said the two-million franc payment followed a “gentlemen’s agreement” between the pair when he asked Platini to be his technical adviser in 1998. Prosecutors had accused Blatter, a Swiss who led global body FIFA for 17 years, and Platini, of unlawfully arranging for FIFA to pay the Frenchman two million Swiss francs ($2.06 million) in 2011. The two, once among the most powerful figures in global football, had denied the charges against them.
0 kommentar(er)
