This file photo taken on July 20, 2015 shows then FIFA president Sepp Blatter gesturing during a press conference at the football's world body headquarter's in Zurich. Ahead of his 80th birthday on Thursday (March 10, 2016), disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said his priority now is clearing his name at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. (AFP)
Former FIFA President Joseph Blatter has lodged an appeal against his six-year ban from soccer for ethics violations, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Thursday.
The Lausanne-based body said Blatter wanted to overturn the a decision by FIFA's appeals committee in February to ban him from the sport at national and international levels.
Blatter and European soccer head Michel Platini were banned over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to Platini in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier. Both have denied any wrong-doing.
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