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Sepp Blatter Enters Court Of Arbitration For Sport Saying He Has Faith

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared before the Court of Arbitration of Sport on Thursday to "appeal against his six-year ban" from football, according to Cecile Mantovani of REUTERS. The 80-year-old, who headed FIFA for 17 years until he resigned in June last year, "was banned from all football-related activity last December" along with former UEFA President Michel Platini. He said, "My name wouldn’t be Sepp Blatter if I didn’t have faith, if I wasn’t optimistic. I will accept the verdict because, in football, we learn to win, this is easy, but we also learn to lose, but this is not good, I wouldn’t want to lose." The bans "were imposed for ethics violations related" to a payment of 2M Swiss francs ($2.1M) that FIFA made to Platini. Blatter: "I'm sure at the end. ... that the (CAS) panel will understand that the payment made to Platini was really a debt that we (owed) him and this is a principle, if you have debts, you pay them." CAS has not said when its final decision on Blatter's appeal will be announced (REUTERS, 8/25).

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