Michel Platini will step down as UEFA president after his six-year ban from football was reduced to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Platini was initially banned for eight years by the FIFA disciplinary committee over a £1.3m payment given to him by then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2011. Both men claimed the money was for work Platini did for Blatter between 1998-2002. [ 85 more words. ]

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