It said the money was paid inappropriately by ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter to Platini.
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Gianni Infantino was re-elected FIFA president unopposed at the congress of world football’s governing body in Paris on Wednesday.
He succeeded Sepp Blatter in 2016 and has increased the number of teams at the 2026 World Cup and proposed key changes to the Club World Cup
Sepp Blatter, the former boss of soccer’s world governing body FIFA, who was ousted during a corruption scandal, has said money risks ruining the sport.
Former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter plans to sue world football’s governing body and his successor for allegedly spreading “false information” and damaging his reputation, according to a news report published on Wednesday.
He was one of the few senior members of previous FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s administration who kept his position under his successor Gianni Infantino.
But soccer’s world governing body said his presence did not directly violate his ban from football activities.
England were knocked out of the first round of bidding for this year’s World Cup with just one vote in 2010, but have reportedly been encouraged by recent conversations with FIFA officials about hosting the tournament in 12 years’ time.
“I think that England or Ireland deserve to organise the World Cup,” Blatter, in Russia to attend the World Cup as a guest of President Vladimir Putin, told Sky Sports.
A Reuters reporter saw Blatter arriving at a hotel in central Moscow on Tuesday evening.
Blatter plans to meet Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday and watch Portugal play Morocco in a World Cup soccer match, the spokesman said.
Platini is currently serving a four-year ban from involvement in football – reduced twice from an original eight-year sanction – after he was found guilty of receiving a “disloyal payment” from then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Blatter, 82, said football’s world governing body is now interested in co-hosted World Cups because it wants to increase the tournament to 48 teams.
The rule referred to by Blatter could allow a five-man task force to disqualify a candidate before a democratic vote is held.
Former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, were found unconscious in a Salisbury shopping centre in early March 14, are being treated for exposure to “A234” substance, according to the UK experts, who say it is of Novichok type of military-grade nerve agents.
Blatter, who led FIFA for 17 years, was barred for ethics violations in 2015 amid the biggest corruption scandal to shake the world football governing body.
Morocco is bidding for the fifth time to host the World Cup finals, having also tried for the 1994, 1998, 2006 and 2010 tournaments.
“You cannot use the World Cup as a guinea pig for such a serious intervention in the game,” Blatter said in an interview with Wednesday’s Sport Bild magazine.
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter claimed last year that some European football draws have been fixed in the past with the use of hot and cold balls
The 81-year-old was in charge of world football’s governing body between 1998 and 2015, at which point he was forced to resign due to a corruption scandal and banned from all football activity for six years