https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Former UEFA president Michel Platini told Swiss television channel RTS on Friday he "will be back" as his ban from football for ethics violations finishes on October 7. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190907/platini-to-swiss-tv-ill-be-back Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:20:35 +0200 platini-to-swiss-tv-ill-be-back Michel Platini wishes the FIFA Ethics Committee which banned him from the sport would disappear, he told two Swiss newspapers in an interview to be published on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180602/platini-i-wish-fifa-ethics-panel-would-disappear Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:53:46 +0200 platini-i-wish-fifa-ethics-panel-would-disappear Swiss club FC Sion has been fined and barred from taking part in European competitions for the next two seasons after failing to pay for the transfer of a player, UEFA said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180417/football-uefa-hits-switzerlands-sion-with-two-season-ban Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:08:33 +0200 football-uefa-hits-switzerlands-sion-with-two-season-ban Bernard Ross, who disappeared from his home in Oxford, UK, in October, has presented himself to police in the Swiss canton of Vaud. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171221/missing-ex-uefa-executive-found-in-switzerland Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:40:25 +0100 missing-ex-uefa-executive-found-in-switzerland The wife of Bernard Ross, a former TV executive at European football body Uefa in Nyon, is appealing for help to find her husband after he went missing more than two weeks ago. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171106/former-uefa-executive-missing-for-more-than-two-weeks Mon, 06 Nov 2017 12:47:42 +0100 former-uefa-executive-missing-for-more-than-two-weeks Switzerland's highest court has rejected former Uefa chief Michel Platini's appeal against a four-year suspension from football, ending his efforts to overturn the penalty, his lawyer said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170707/michel-platini-uefa-fifa-loses-final-appeal-football-suspension Fri, 07 Jul 2017 10:28:02 +0200 michel-platini-uefa-fifa-loses-final-appeal-football-suspension The host nation of Euro 2024 must meet certain criteria relating to the respect of human rights, European football's governing body Uefa said on Monday as they prepare to choose between the candidacies of Germany and Turkey. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170502/uefa-euros-host-nation-must-respect-human-rights Tue, 02 May 2017 11:04:36 +0200 uefa-euros-host-nation-must-respect-human-rights Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin warned the United States that President Donald Trump's controversial travel restrictions could torpedo any hopes of hosting the 2026 World Cup. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170228/uefa-warns-us-travel-ban-could-scupper-2026-world-cup-hopes Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:18:14 +0100 uefa-warns-us-travel-ban-could-scupper-2026-world-cup-hopes Swiss champions Basel have a respectable record in Europe in recent seasons and fancy their chances of springing a surprise when they face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161019/basel-ready-for-battle-in-champions-league-clash Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:17:34 +0200 basel-ready-for-battle-in-champions-league-clash Around 120 asylum seekers and refugees in Switzerland will next week compete in a football tournament organized with the backing of Uefa, organizers said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160908/uefa-hosts-new-football-competition-for-migrants Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:28:27 +0200 uefa-hosts-new-football-competition-for-migrants UPDATED: Uefa's fallen chief Michel Platini mounted a final challenge against his six-year ban from football on Friday in an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), with ally-turned-foe Sepp Blatter testifying for Fifa. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160429/football-corruption-platini-faces-make-or-break-hearing-uefa-fifa Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:58:10 +0200 football-corruption-platini-faces-make-or-break-hearing-uefa-fifa Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter will testify during Michel Platini's appeal against his ban from football, following a request from world football's governing body, a source close to the case told AFP on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160426/blatter-will-testify-at-platinis-lausanne-appeal Tue, 26 Apr 2016 18:42:18 +0200 blatter-will-testify-at-platinis-lausanne-appeal A Fifa appeal committee on Wednesday reduced bans against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to six years but maintained they were still guilty of ethics breaches. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160225/blatter-and-platini-have-bans-reduced-on-appeal Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:40:28 +0100 blatter-and-platini-have-bans-reduced-on-appeal Scandal-tainted Fifa is heading for a $100 million-plus deficit for 2015 and rival candidates for the leadership of football's world body have warned of catastrophe if some campaign promises are carried out. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160222/fifa-candidates-at-odds-over-financial-promises Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:53:38 +0100 fifa-candidates-at-odds-over-financial-promises The Euro 2016 football tournament provides "a good opportunity" for Swiss-based Uefa to introduce goal-line technology (GLT), the European federation's chief referee Pierluigi Collina said on Tuesday, with a final decision expected this week. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160119/goal-line-technology-pushed-for-euro-2016 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:11:24 +0100 goal-line-technology-pushed-for-euro-2016 The Swiss-based European football federation (Uefa) said it was "disappointed" over Fifa's decision on Monday to ban Michel Platini for eight years over an ethics violation, expressing support for the Frenchman's right to an appeal. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151221/uefa-disappointed-over-platini-ban Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:48:39 +0100 uefa-disappointed-over-platini-ban A report issued to Uefa's executive committee in 1998 appears to support Michel Platini's claim that he was paid an annual salary "of one million Swiss francs" for work as an advisor to Fifa. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151206/memo-backs-platini-salary-claim-report Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:03:19 +0100 memo-backs-platini-salary-claim-report Crisis-hit football world governing body Fifa has fined Spain's Uefa vice-president Angel Maria Villar Llona and suspended two African officials for six months, the body's ethics committee announced on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151113/uefa-vice-president-fined-by-fifa-ethics-board Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:42:43 +0100 uefa-vice-president-fined-by-fifa-ethics-board Fifa on Thursday approved five candidates to stand in February's vote to replace Sepp Blatter as president of world football's governing body, but Michel Platini has not yet made the list. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151112/five-qualify-for-fifa-leader-race Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:41:19 +0100 five-qualify-for-fifa-leader-race Fifa lifted a new corner of its veil of secrecy on Wednesday by revealing that German football great Franz Beckenbauer and the current most senior Uefa official Angel Maria Villar Llona have been investigated. https://www.thelocal.ch/20151022/german-football-great-under-fifa-suspicion Thu, 22 Oct 2015 10:59:04 +0200 german-football-great-under-fifa-suspicion