Platini may still contest for fifa presidency despite ban

Michel Platini’s suspension from all football-related activities does not automatically invalidate his candidacy for the FIFA presidency, the world governing body’s ethics committee told AFP on Thursday.

UEFA boss, Platini, who submitted his papers to stand for the presidency on Thursday, and the man he hopes to replace, Sepp Blatter, were both suspended for 90 days after they were named in a Swiss corruption case.

“That (Platini’s candidacy) is not a question for the ethics committee but for FIFA’s electoral commission, which will study its validity,” committee spokesman Andreas Bantel, told AFP.

The independent ethics committee also banned South Korean tycoon, Chung Mong-Joon, another presidential hopeful, for six years and FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, already ordered to leave by FIFA over a separate ticketing scandal, for 90 days.