(Paris) Michel Platini said Friday that he would not return to FIFA after his acquittal in the fraud case which had shattered his ambitions to reach the top of world football in 2015.
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“It’s over,” replied the former footballer and ex-president of UEFA when asked on LCI about a possible return to the International Football Federation.
He said he had filed a complaint in France to shed light on the origin of the accusations of illegal payment which led to his being tried. “There are a few who killed me,” he said, adding that he was “a bit revenge-driven.”
“Those who were in place didn’t want me to come, they didn’t want anyone else to come and see what’s going on,” he said, adding that he “didn’t know not” who it was about.
“Those who let me down are the politics of football. They took my place, at UEFA, at FIFA, they all had raises, they had advantages that I was no longer there”.
He felt that Sepp Blatter, former FIFA president tried and acquitted with him, was “a very good president, until the day he told me he wanted to die at FIFA. From there he tried to make trouble with everyone who was planning to one day replace him and from there it went badly”.
The winner of the Euro with the France team in 1984 and the C1 in 1985 with Juventus, now 67, has ruled out any possibility of resuming leadership responsibilities in the world of football.
“I want to live a little quiet,” he said. “I decided not to run for FIFA, not to run for UEFA, I decided not to run for the French Football Federation. These are decisions that I made a long time ago but I wanted to be able to say it with my head held high, not under the influence of an indictment, of a bogus thing. »
“If there is something interesting to do for football, I would do it but not in these institutions, I do not want to return to that world”, he still assured.