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MOSCOW, July 9 Head of the State Duma Committee on Sports Dmitry Svishchev expressed regret that the European football officials Josef Blatter and Michel Platini, previously acquitted by a Swiss court, could not resist the political pressure, which began «including enemies from across the ocean.» The Swiss court in the city of Bellinzona previously acquitted the former president of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Joseph Blatter and ex — the head of the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini in the case of fraud. «I want to congratulate the officials and their lawyers. Blatter and Platini raised football to a whole new level. They made football spectacular commercial, in demand. It is a pity that they could not resist before by a biased political pressure, which was launched, among other things, by enemies from across the ocean. They became victims of the intrigues that always exist in organizations where there is money. We know how much they have done for holding big events in Russia and developing football in our country,» Svishchev said.