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Blatter, Platini, Valcke banned for 90 days

FIFA's ethics committee has provisionally banned Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke for 90 days.

FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon has also been handed a six-year ban.

A FIFA statement read: "The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee chaired by Hans Joachim Eckert has provisionally banned FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter, UEFA President and FIFA Vice-President Michel Platini, and FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke (who has already been put on leave by his employer FIFA) for a duration of 90 days.

"The duration of the bans may be extended for an additional period not exceeding 45 days.