all football-related activities for almost a decade by the Independent Ethics
Committee.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter and his Uefa counterpart Michel Platini have both
been banned from all football-related activity for eight years with immediate
effect, the Independent Ethics Committee of world football's governing body has
confirmed.
Both men were provisionally suspended in October in relation to a payment of
CHF 2,000,000 (£1.34m) from Fifa - and authorised by Blatter - to Platini in
February 2011.
Blatter and Platini claimed this related to work carried out by the former France
captain for Fifa between 1999 and 2002, citing a "gentleman's agreement".
However, in its ruling published on Monday, the adjudicatory chamber of the
Ethics Committee said that the payment had "no legal basis in the written
agreement signed between both officials on 25 August 1999".
Furthermore, Blatter's assertion of an oral agreement was "determined as not
convincing and was rejected by the chamber".
The 79-year-old Swiss, who had already announced his intention to stand down
before February's FIFA presidential elections, has been fined 50,000 Swiss
francs, with Platini fined 80,000 Swiss francs.
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