Blatter, Platini ruling due on Monday

The FIFA ethics committee is expected to announce its verdict on suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini on Monday.

The verdict on suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Platini will be announced on Monday, a spokesman for the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA ethics committee has announced.

Spokesman Marc Tenbuecken on Friday said the chamber headed by German Jans-Joachim Eckert will deliberate on the weekend "and publish its verdict on Monday".

Blatter and Platini face life bans if found guilty of corruption - or bans over several years in the case of conflict of interest - in connection with a "disloyal payment" of $US2 million ($A2.81 million) Platini received for FIFA work done between 1998 and 2002.

Blatter attended a hearing Thursday while Platini was represented by his lawyer on Friday.

Both men protest their innocence and while admitting that there was no written contract they say they had a verbal agreement.

A ban would end Platini's ambition to succeed Blatter as FIFA boss in February.


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