Ethics investigators for FIFA, the ruling body of world soccer, have recommended sanctions be imposed on Sepp Blatter, the organization’s longtime president, and Michel Platini, the head of soccer’s European confederation, the organization said on Saturday.
Both Mr. Blatter and Mr. Platini, who have been provisionally suspended from world soccer since early October as FIFA conducted an internal investigation into a financial transaction between them, will have the opportunity to defend themselves at a hearing, which is expected to take place in December. After that, the judge on FIFA’s ethics committee will decide whether to impose the more permanent sanctions that have been recommended.