Platini: “I fought against injustice – I won outside of football”

He fought against injustice Michel Platini as he says in an interview he gave to the Italian newspaper, Corriere della Serra. The former president of UEFA talks about the effort they made to expel him from the world federation, and that when they succeeded then they let him go.

“I did nothing, 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 me 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”Michel Platini reported and added:

“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.’



Platini referred to the fact that he failed to take the post of 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.”