Platini: The long nightmare is over; I will return to football

By Daily Sports on May 27, 2018

Banned former UEFA president and FIFA vice president Michel Platini says he is planning to return to football after Swiss federal prosecutors confirmed he was not being charged in an investigation into possible financial wrongdoing.

Platini said in a statement it’s “the end of a long nightmare for my family and those close to me.”

Since September 2015, the former France midfielder had the status of “between a witness and an accused person” in criminal proceedings opened against then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter. No criminal case was ever opened against Platini.

The evidence related to Blatter authorising FIFA to pay Platini $2 million in uncontracted back salary in 2011.

FIFA’s ethics committee also investigated Platini's request to FIFA for pension contributions he was not entitled to. It was agreed by Blatter and added more than $1m to Platini’s retirement fund.

Platini was eventually banned for four years, through October 2019. Both he and Blatter denied wrongdoing but Court of Arbitration for Sport judges refused to overturn his ban and that of Blatter’s.

The case meant Platini was removed from the UEFA presidency and he was barred from trying to succeed Blatter as FIFA president in 2016.

Platini, a former France captain and coach, said: “I will come back: where, when, how? It’s too early to say. But I will come back into football. Because football is my life and I deny anyone the right to deprive me of my life.” (ESPN)

•Photo shows Platini

Source Daily Sports

Posted May 27, 2018


 

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