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Blatter ban remains after CAS dismisses appeal

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled that the disgraced former FIFA president's six-year ban from all football activities will remain in place

Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter's appeal against a six-year ban from all football activities has been dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini were suspended from all football-related activity by FIFA in December 2015 when the adjudicatory chamber of its Ethics Committee ruled a payment of two million Swiss francs, authorised by the Swiss to the former France captain, constituted multiple infringements of the FIFA Code of Ethics.