Platini and Blatter," investigatory panel spokesman Andreas Bantel told reporters in Zurich, where FIFA has its headquarters.While Blatter and FIFA Coins Platini have said the panel was seeking a lifetime ban from the sport, Bantel said he declined to comment on the content of its appeal.
Blatter has said he feels "abandoned" by the global soccer body and will now focus on clearing his name through his own appeal.Platini, who was the strong favourite to succeed Blatter until becoming mired in allegations that led to his ban, has also said he will appeal.
The crisis gripping the soccer world began with arrests of a group of FIFA officials at a luxury Zurich hotel in May. Since then Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice has frozen around $80 million in assets in 13 bank accounts and the United States has charged 41 people and entities in a probe of corruption that spans soccer bodies around the globe.There is precedent for extending bans on appeal.Vernon Manilal Fernando, a former FIFA executive committee member from Sri Lanka, was banned for eight years by the ethics committee in April 2013.
The investigatory chamber appealed against this, saying the ban was too short, while Fernando fought the ban that he said was too long.In October 2013 FIFA's Appeal Committee increased the ban to life. This decision was upheld by the Court for Arbitration in Sport in March 2015. ($1 = 0.9998 Swiss francs) (Reporting by John Miller and Brian Homewood; Editing by Michael Shields) Lionel messi vows to end career at barcelona after winning fifth ballon d'or | FIFA 18 Mobile Coins.
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