Michel Platini's eight-year ban from all football-related activities has been met with disappointment by UEFA.
UEFA is "extremely disappointed" by the FIFA ruling to suspend its president Michel Platini from all football-related activities for eight years and will support his right to due process.
FIFA's ethics committee announced Monday that Platini and FIFA counterpart Sepp Blatter have been hit with eight-year suspensions in relation to a payment of two million Swiss francs ($2.01 million) made by world football's governing body, and authorized by Blatter, to Platini in February 2011.
Blatter and FIFA vice president Platini claimed this related to work carried out by the former France captain for FIFA between 1999 and 2002, citing a "gentleman's agreement," but the ethics committee rejected those assertions.