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UEFA president Michel Platini to miss Euro 2016 finals draw in Paris after failing in bid to lift ban

Sport360 staff

13:35 11/12/2015

UEFA president Michel Platini will miss the Euro 2016 finals draw in Paris on Saturday after failing in his bid to have his provisional 90-day ban from all football activity lifted.

The 60-year-old Frenchman had lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to lift the suspension but the court upheld the sanction imposed by FIFA’s ethics committee.

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That same committee is to hear a disciplinary case against the Frenchman next week over a £1.3million payment he received in 2011 from FIFA, signed off by the world governing body’s president Sepp Blatter. Platini insists the 2million Swiss franc payment was owed from an oral agreement he made with Blatter when he started working as FIFA’s technical advisor in 1998.

The Euro 2016 draw is close to Platini’s heart, with the tournament being played in his home country, but Friday’s ruling by CAS means he will miss the biggest event in the build-up.

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