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UEFA president Michel Platini's suspension upheld by CAS

Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini will not be present for Saturday's Euro 2016 draw after he had the 90-day ban imposed on him by FIFA upheld on Friday following an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Platini took a case to CAS after being banned for 90 days by the ethics committee of world football's governing body in October. Platini and outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter were both provisionally suspended over a two million Swiss franc (£1.35m) payment made to the UEFA chief in 2011 for work said to have been carried out more than nine years previously.