UEFA President Quits After Failing to Reverse Ban

Michel Platini will resign as the president of UEFA, European football's governing body, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport failed to overturn his ban. However, the court reduce the sanction from six to four years. The court found Platini guilty of receiving a suspect payment of $2 million from FIFA, world football’s governing body, for working as an adviser to its then-president, Sepp Blatter. Blatter resigned from his post in 2015 amid an ongoing corruption...

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