Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which will determine whether his
90-day ban from all football-related activity can be
temporarily lifted, will be heard on Tuesday.
On Monday CAS confirmed the legal counsels for Platini and
Fifa, which imposed the sanction on the Frenchman, have
been invited to attend the hearing. A decision is likely to be
issued no later than Friday.
UEFA president Platini was handed the sanction by Fifa
ethics committee in October for an alleged "disloyal
payment" he received from outgoing Fifa president Sepp
Blatter for work he claims to have carried out for world
football's governing body between 1999 and 2002.
Blatter was also banned after a criminal investigation was
opened into the claim and a separate allegation that he sold
a World Cup TV rights contract to former Fifa official Jack
Warner in a deal that was unfavourable for Fifa.
Platini and Blatter are due to attend personal hearings with
FIFA's ethics judge from December 16 in relation to the
alleged payment of two million Swiss francs.
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