Lausanne: Michel Platini's lawyers will appear at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday as part of an appeal against his suspension from FIFA, with a decision due by December 11, a CAS statement said. Platini, the head of European football governing body UEFA and a FIFA vice president, was suspended from all football activities in October for 90 days.


Michel Platini. Pic/AFP

The ban by FIFA's ethics committee came after Platini was linked to a criminal probe by Swiss prosecutors. The sports court's statement said representatives of FIFA and Platini were invited to a preliminary hearing on Tuesday afternoon. The hearing will be "limited to the issue as to whether or not the provisional 90-day suspension imposed on Mr Platini should be temporarily lifted," the statement said.