UEFA won't replace Platini while he's trying to overturn ban
Posted January 22, 2016 6:00 am
GENEVA (AP) - UEFA will not replace Michel Platini as president while he is pursuing legal routes to overturn his eight-year FIFA ban.
Platini was banned over a $2 million payment from FIFA in 2011 for uncontracted salary as an adviser to Sepp Blatter.
UEFA will meet in Budapest at a congress in May when a new president could have been elected before the European Championship.
But UEFA says its executive committee has "decided there will be no UEFA presidential election scheduled until the sports justice appeal bodies, including potentially the Court of Arbitration for Sport, have taken a decision."
UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino entered the FIFA election race after Platini was banned.
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014 fiel photo UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino gestures during a press conference, one day prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying draw in Nice, southeastern France. Infantino used his manifesto, which was published Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, to say FIFA should not limit the tournament to be being held in one or two countries. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, file)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2014 fiel photo UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino speaks during a press conference, one day prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying draw in Nice, southeastern France. Infantino used his manifesto, which was published Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, to say FIFA should not limit the tournament to be being held in one or two countries. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, file)
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