Michel Platini announces resignation as ban from football reduced to four years

A spokesman for Platini's lawyer has already confirmed that the 60-year-old Frenchman will now resign as UEFA president, a position he has held since 2007.

UEFA president Michel Platini's ban from football has been reduced from six years to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Platini and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter were initially given eight years by world football's governing body over a two million Swiss francs payment, worth around £1.4m at current exchange rates, made by Blatter to Platini in 2011.