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M'Vila ban reduced

February 1, 2013
By Ian Holyman, France Correspondent
Yann M'Vila will have a chance of playing for France in the 2014 World Cup after the French Football Federation reduced his international ban.

M'Vila, 22, had been banned from representing his country until July 2014 as punishment for being one of five players who made a near 400 kilometre round-trip by taxi from the Normandy coast to a Paris nightclub while on international duty with France's Under-21 squad in October.

After a 30-minute appeal hearing in front of the FFF's ...

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