This appointment, if it is confirmed, should mark the great return of Michel Platini, the former playmaker of the Blues, in the instances of the round ball, six years after his ousting from his post of president of UEFA in 2015 and its ban from world football. “It makes me very happy”, commented Platini in a statement sent to AFP.
“I have always said that I will come back where I could be of use. I have also always said that football belongs to the players and the supporters. I come back to my people, the players, so that their place is fully defended and recognized. and above all to build with them the future of this sport “, he added. Platini’s return to business at Fifpro is sponsored by the current president of the union, the Frenchman Philippe Piat (78), who intends to hand over in November.
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A suspension in 2015 for Platini
“I have decided to no longer be the representative of France on the board (of Fifpro, where France has a member by right, Editor’s note). And I would like Michel Platini to sit there in my place as representative of the ‘UNFP “, the French union of professional footballers, said Piat in the columns of The Team. Platini, now 65, was suspended at the end of 2015 from all football-related activities after receiving 2 million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) from Fifa in 2011, validated by the president of the Sepp Blatter era without a written contract.
This case is the subject of an investigation in Switzerland for “unfair management”, “breach of trust” and “fraud”. Blatter and Platini assure for their part that it is about a remainder of salary for a work of adviser going back to 1999-2002. Michel Platini said that he also saw in this affair a “conspiracy” intended to oust him from the presidency of Fifa which seemed to be open to him, for the benefit of Gianni Infantino. He therefore counter-attacked at the end of 2018 with a complaint for “slanderous denunciation” and “conspiracy”.
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