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Sepp Blat­ter and Michel Pla­ti­ni won again in court Tues­day and now lead 2-0 in tri­al ver­dicts against Swiss fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors.

Once soc­cer’s most pow­er­ful men, for­mer FI­FA pres­i­dent Blat­ter and for­mer UE­FA pres­i­dent Pla­ti­ni were ac­quit­ted for a sec­ond time in a case now in its 10th year on charges of fraud, forgery, mis­man­age­ment and mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of more than $2 mil­lion of FI­FA mon­ey in 2011.

Blat­ter, now aged 89, gave lit­tle re­ac­tion lis­ten­ing to the ver­dict of three can­ton­al (state) judges act­ing as a fed­er­al crim­i­nal ap­peals court. Sit­ting in the row in front of Pla­ti­ni, Blat­ter al­ter­nate­ly tapped his fin­gers on his desk or held his left hand over his mouth.