The German Football Federation has welcomed he resignation of Michel Platini as UEFA president, which it says will give the organisation a fresh start.
DFB president Reinhard Grindel said in a statement on Monday that the federation welcomed the step because Platini was freeing the way for the new beginning that UEFA needs.
The resignation was also described as a "logical consequence" of the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which reduced Platini's suspension from six to four years, but did not lift it.
The DFB will contact other federations in the coming days and the German representative in the executive committee of UEFA, Wolfgang Niersbach, to find a formula for the succession of Platini.
Grindel also thanked Platini on behalf of German soccer for the work done in recent years.
Earlier on Monday, CAS not only reduced the FIFA-imposed ban on Platini, but also lowered his fine from 80,000 Swiss francs ($A112,200) to 60,000 ($A84,100).
CAS studied on April 29 the appeal by Platini, president of the UEFA since 2007, until the FIFA ethics committee disqualified him last October for violating the code of ethics.
It was alleged that he had received a payment of two million Swiss francs from FIFA in 2011, authorised by Sepp Blatter, then FIFA president, for work done years earlier, according to an agreement signed by both in 1999.
According to the FIFA disciplinary body, the agreement had no legal basis and both were disqualified for eight years, a punishment that the FIFA appeal committee reduced last February to six years, also in both cases.
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