Sepp Blatter appeals six-year soccer ban

Blatter claims €2m payment to Platini was the repayment of a debt.

Disgraced former Fifa president Sepp Blatter appeared before sport’s highest tribunal, the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), yesterday to appeal against his six-year ban from soccer.

The 80-year-old, who headed soccer’s global governing body for 17 years until he resigned in June last year, was banned from all football-related activity last December along with the then European soccer boss Michel Platini.