30 January 2016

Blatter wants to attend the elections

It is more likely that suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter will attend the election process to be held 26 February in Zurich. He expected to be there even though his appeal against an 8 year ban is unlikely to be resolved by then. Blatter is scheduled to return to FIFA headquarters 16 February for an appeal committee hearing, and an immediate ruling is expected. If the appeal panel confirms Blatter's ban, it could take weeks to write the detail verdict said Blatter's spokesman Thomas Renggli. Case documents are needed in hand before appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport can be filed and registered.
The FIFA ethics committee banned Blatter last month for a range of charges, including disloyal payment to Michel Platini in 2011.
The FIFA appeals committee - chaired by Larry Mussenden, former attorney general of Bermuda - rarely overturns sanctions imposed by the governing body's ethics and disciplinary bodies.

0 comments:

Post a Comment