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December 21st, 2015 
Awake Goy The pair were suspended over a 2 million Swiss franc ($2.02 million) payment by FIFA to Platini in 2011, which is currently being investigated. Both men denied any wrongdoing.
Blatter and Platini may challenge the committee’s ruling in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Commenting on the development, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said it would hurt European soccer. He added that Blatter didn’t deserve such an end to his soccer career. Blatter will be 87 when the ban expires, making his return to active work in soccer unlikely.
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The two top soccer officials were banned amid a wider corruption scandal that has shaken FIFA since May, when several senior soccer officials were arrested in Zurich. The US is leading the investigation into alleged corruption in FIFA dating back decades. Blatter was reelected as FIFA president on May 29. On June 2, FIFA abruptly called a press conference at their Zürich headquarters, where Blatter announced that he would resign from the post of FIFA president amid the ongoing corruption scandal.
Fourteen officials have been charged with corruption-related crimes. Some of them have been extradited to the US to stand trial.
The scandal and how it broke out remains a controversy. While speculation about corruption in FIFA had been swirling around for years, the US taking over the probe rather than allowing national law enforcement to do the job has been viewed by many as yet another bid by Washington to extend its national jurisdiction around the world.
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