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UEFA to elect Platini replacement on September 14

European football's governing body will choose a successor to the Frenchman after he resigned from his post after his ban from football activity was upheld by CAS.

UEFA will elect a replacement for former president Michel Platini at a meeting in Athens on Sept. 14.

Platini was banned from all football-related activity last year, after allegedly receiving a "disloyal payment" from then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2011.

The Frenchman, who continues to deny wrongdoing, has since seen that suspension reduced to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but the court did not overturn his ban when the verdict was delivered on May 9.