Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will have his CAS hearing next month.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will hear Sepp Blatter's appeal against his six-year FIFA ban on Aug. 25.
Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini were suspended from all football-related activity by FIFA last December when the adjudicatory chamber of its Ethics Committee ruled a payment of 2 million Swiss francs, authorized by the Swiss to the former France captain, constituted multiple infringements of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
The FIFA Appeal Committee upheld the Ethics Committee's findings, although it reduced the initial eight-year suspensions to six in light of "strong mitigating factors" — namely Blatter and Platini's long history of service in football administration.