South Korea's Chung finally launches CAS appeal over FIFA ban (Reuters)

By Peter Rutherford SEOUL (Reuters) - Chung Mong-joon is taking his fight against a lengthy ban from soccer to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) as part of a decades-long battle to reform the game's governing body, the former FIFA vice president said on Thursday. The South Korean's bid to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president was torpedoed in 2015 when the governing body banned him from all football-related activities for six years and fined him 100,000 Swiss francs ($99,800) following a probe into corruption. FIFA's Appeals Committee reduced Chung's ban to five years and cut the fine in half last July, saying there was not enough evidence to prove he had infringed an article of FIFA's ethics code covering confidentiality.