The ex-president of UEFA said on Friday on LCI that he was going to no longer seek any mandate in the world of football. It will be a civil party in the criminal procedure carried out in Switzerland against the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino.
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How will Michel Platini, 67, relaunch his career? The question has been looped since the acquittal by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (TPF) of Bellinzone, on July 8, of the ex-French president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in the payment case presumed disloyal of two million Swiss francs (1.9 million euros) received, in February 2011, from Sepp Blatter, the former boss of the International Football Federation (FIFA).
A real thunderclap in the microcosm of the round ball, the release of the two former leaders, prosecuted for “suspicions of fraud, unfair management, breach of trust and false in the titles”, fueled fantasies as for the supposed intentions From ex-numéro 10 of the Blues to return to the political spectrum of football.
During an interview with the LCI channel, Friday, July 15, Platini cut short the rumors by officially announcing the end of his “political” career. He confirmed that he would no longer seek any mandate “at FIFA and UEFA” or the French Football Federation (FFF). “These are worlds that have disturbed me in recent years, which I didn’t like, I didn’t want to go back,” swept the former player, whose ambitions were struck down, at the ‘Fall 2015, by the payment case of two million.
Archifavori in the race for the succession of Mr. Blatter, the Frenchman had been forced to leave his ex-right right to UEFA, Gianni Infantino, to be elected in his place at the head of FIFA. Mr. Platini was suspended by the FIFA ethics committee after the opening of criminal proceedings by the public prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation (MPC). Arriving at its end in October 2019, its radiation was reduced to four years by the Arbitral Tribunal of Sport (TAS) of Lausanne, then confirmed by the Swiss Federal Court and by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Request for constitution of civil party in the Infantino affair
If he ensured still having “projects for the game and the players”, Mr. Platini affirmed at the microphone of LCI that “this world” of international bodies and “bureaucrats” ” Plus. “:” It’s over. I was disappointed. I am not a supporter of these institutions. Seven years ago, I had to be president of FIFA, but I have matured, aged, I ‘I don’t want to spend my life in planes. My family and I need a media rest. “
However, the politico-judicial saga started in 2015 could continue to the extent that the Swiss prosecution and FIFA, a civil party, have not yet indicated if they had to appeal the judgment of the TPF.
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