Michel Platini says he will not run for the presidency of the FFF

Michel Platini president of the French Football Federation? It’s a definite no. While the FFF is in a period of great change following the recent departures of Noël Le Graët from his position as president and Corinne Deacon from the head of the French women’s team, the former boss of UEFA, from 2007 to 2015, was clear, Monday, March 30, on the airwaves of RMC: “I made a statement in July when I was cleared of my business in Switzerland, I said that I would not return to the institutions of football. That’s it, period!”

Cleared on July 8, 2022 of charges of fraud which pursued him for six years, Michel Platini continues by emphasizing that “power, it is taken or it is not taken. I have no desire to take it. I have given enough, I was vice-president of the French Federation 30 years ago, I have all done, that’s fine, that’s enough”, concludes the triple winner of the Ballon d’Or, now 67 years old.

“There is no crisis at the FFF”

However, Michel Platini does not completely slam the door to the world of football: “My story may not be over, there may be other things to do in football. I said last time that if there was an opportunity, something that I would like, I would but not today”, he launched in an enigmatic way.

Asked about the current crisis hanging over the French Football Federation, the former leader prefers to put things into perspective: “The structures of French football are good, French football is not bad, we were world champions in 1998, World Cup finalists (…) There is no crisis, it’s the crisis of a president, not the crisis of French football”he estimated.