Michel Platini it has now been made official. He will not be standing for election of the FIFA President. However, that was already only a theoretical option. He had previously must win the battle against his eight-year ban.
Michel Platini says “Bye bye Fifa”. The already locked for eight years UEFA president draws his candidacy for the office of President of the World Association back as successor to Joseph Blatter. This was confirmed by the 60-year old Frenchman on Thursday the sports newspaper “L’Equipe” and the US news agency AP.
“I can not, I have neither the time nor the means to see the electors to meet people, to measure myself against the other (candidate),” he said, “L’Equipe”. Platini was as Blatter closed on 21 December last year by the Ethics Committee of FIFA for eight years.
Only if he were successful in time against this sentence before the International Court of Sport, he had the election on February 26 in the FIFA headquarters can make in Zurich. “The timing is not good for me,” Mr Platini told AP. “I will not be given the chance to go through the game.” “Bye bye FIFA” bye bye FIFA president said Mr Platini.
Platini suspected intrigue
In the Home Championship in France from June 10 to July 10, 32 years after the European title for the brilliant playmaker Platini, now reads: Rien ne va plus. The dubious two-million-franc deal with Blatter ended any dreams of inheriting the equally difficult ousted Swiss in the highest football office.
Platini and Blatter argue in the money if it were a late payment fee for Platini’s services for the FIFA from 1998 to 2002. “I regret nothing about this story,” said Platini. He had not done anything wrong. He trying to understand it, said the Frenchman, pointing to an intrigue. Maybe someone did not wanted him to apply themselves.
The investigating chamber of the ethics committee had demanded even lifelong barriers for Platini and Blatter. Against their barrier of eight they may (CAS) in Lausanne and pull the Swiss Federal Supreme Court against the International Sports Court. The CAS had an objection Platini against the previously shrouded 90-day lock rejected.
“Maybe I’ll be in 20 years again …”
A new start of the FIFA, which is in the middle in their most serious corruption scandal, would having a preloaded Platini anyway not have been conceivable. Although this in the newspaper “L’Equipe” once again stressed that after Blatter’s resignation announcement 150 associations had promised him their support.
is the favorite for the elections currently Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, despite allegations of human rights violations in Bahrain. However, Platini does not exclude, but still rise at a later date for global soccer chief. There is no age limit. “So maybe I’ll be in 20 years. Who knows? “
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