Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has appealed his six-year ban from soccer to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
FIFA suspended Blatter, 80, and cohort Michel Platini in December when the adjudicatory chamber of its Ethics Committee ruled a payment of some $2 million authorized by Blatter to Platini constituted multiple infringements of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
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Both continue to profess their innocence. They received eight-year suspensions that were later reduced to six. Platini, a former French soccer star, was long seen as Blatter's likely success and was president of Europe's soccer governing body.