Michel Platini: "Outside football I won, but inside I lost"

Manos Staramopoulos • ago 17, 2023

The former french player and manager, spoke with Corriere della Sera about the sanction that took him away from soccer and about his plans for the future

Michel Platini ex UEFA President

Former UEFA president Michel Platini spoke about everyone and everything, including the FIFA scandals that involved him, in an interview with the Italian newspaper "Corriere della Sera".


“I didn't do anything, I knew I had nothing to blame myself for, I always did everything right. I saw how much my family and people close to me suffered. The battle I fought was against injustice. The aim of this campaign was to get out of FIFA. I was accused by the FIFA committees.


Once we left the world of football officials who wanted to stop me from becoming president, justice proved me right And for me, of course, that's what counts. Outside of football I won, inside I lost. That's why I won't give up, it was unfair. There are people who hurt me, a lot," said the famous Frenchman and continued:


“I don't care that much about the FIFA universe. For Infantino, Ceferin, this world is everything because they have never experienced anything before and, outside of it, they are nobody, nothing. They have never played football. They, like Blatter, became important there, within those buildings they are in, and they are only important there. I suffered for ten days, I fought to defend myself, but then I soon realized that the truth was that they just wanted to get me out, and that was that.'


Michel Platini would be the only footballer to become FIFA president:


"It is certain that the FIFA administration took a position against me. The presidents of the national federations wanted me as president, the FIFA apparatus did not. You understand why. And they looked for something to block me. They found a payment made five years earlier and here is the irony: FIFA first pays me for my work and then punishes me for paying me. Absurd, this is the best. "Football wanted me, football politics didn't," emphasized Michel Platini, who then spoke about his future, while he did not avoid the question of his possible cooperation with Juventus, with whom he competed and won (among others) the Champions Cup at Heysel in 1985, in a match where 39 fans were killed in pre-kick-off incidents.



"There is no prospect at the moment for me in football. Not at the moment. I've already done everything. I was a football player, a coach, a producer. And therefore there should be an interesting, new, strange, truly revolutionary project. Today I am 68, scarred by forty years of pressure, constant exposure. They made me several proposals, but I always refused. Now I enjoy my life. As for Juventus, no one ever asked me..."


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Manos Staramopoulos

Journalist and Analyst of International Football and Affairs

Chief Editor English Zone of Discoveryfootball.com

Athens (Greece)

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