{"id":418583,"date":"2011-05-05T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/05\/adamu-lodges-cas-appeal\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:20:46","slug":"adamu-lodges-cas-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/05\/adamu-lodges-cas-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamu lodges CAS appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52468000\/jpg\/_52468495_adamu226x170.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Nigerian football administrator Amos Adamu\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Amos Adamu has appealed to CAs over his suspension by Fifa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Nigeria&#8217;s Amos Adamu has appealed to sport&#8217;s highest court to overturn his three-year ban from football.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The veteran administrator was found guilty of seeking bribes during the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.<\/p>\n<p>The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) said on Thursday that he has now appealed against his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Tonga&#8217;s Ahongalu Fusimalohi has also appealed his two-year ban, according to the Swiss-based court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In both cases, the appellants request that they be found not guilty and the sanctions against them be annulled,&#8221; the court said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The court has not fixed a hearing date.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Fifa&#8217;s Appeal Committee upheld the decisions taken by the Ethics Committee in November.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu had been on the executive committee for both Fifa and the Confederation of African Football, as well as the president of the West African Football Union, before his ban.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9474125.stm\" title=\"Adamu lodges CAS appeal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adamu lodges CAS appeal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria&#8217;s Amos Adamu has appealed to CAs over his suspension by Fifa Nigeria&#8217;s Amos Adamu has appealed to sport&#8217;s highest court to overturn his three-year ban from football. The veteran administrator was found guilty of seeking bribes during the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) said on Thursday that he has now appealed against his suspension. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adamu lodges CAS appeal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/05\/adamu-lodges-cas-appeal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Adamu lodges CAS appeal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Amos Adamu has appealed to CAs over his suspension by Fifa Nigeria&#039;s Amos Adamu has appealed to sport&#039;s highest court to overturn his three-year ban from football. 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