Tuesday, March 24, 2015

FOOTBALL: Michel Platini re-elected Uefa – Le Parisien

March 24, 2015, 1:13 p.m. | Update: March 24, 2015, 3:14 p.m.

The Former triple Ballon d’Or was accessed for the first time to the post in 2007 on a tight score against the incumbent president Lennart Johansson. In Paris in 2011, he had already been extended by acclamation. In Vienna, as in Paris, no other candidate ran against his undisputed record.

After a successful playing career, the European champion in 1984 at the head of the France team Platini perfectly successfully converted. “In 2007, I was elected me on a program that some felt, not without a certain contempt for that matter, as” romantic “. Together we were able to show that one could combine romanticism and realism ideals and actions “, he welcomed Tuesday at the podium before greeting the 54 delegates who cheered him.

Uefa’s revenues have tripled in 8 years

How do you explain the success of the French, has mastered the art of the conquest of power? His body has succeeded “in eight years almost triple its revenue feat while opening its competitions to the greatest number,” which “can create jealousies and misunderstandings,” as recalled Tuesday featured ex-player of Juventus.

At the end of the 2006-2007 season, a season commenced before Platini became president, total revenue was 895.5 million euros for UEFA. In 2013-2014, they reached 1.73 billion euros, with an increase of 1.8% or 31.5 million more compared to the previous season. And projections for 2015-2016 show 4.6 billion in revenue, partly because of a Euro, France, from 16 to 24 teams.

VIDEO. A third term for Platini

The conquest of FIFA?

Is this the last term of the European football boss? When Sepp Blatter, his rival is about to re-enlist for a fifth term as head of FIFA at the age of 79, Platini might find in the conquest of the Government of international football the ultimate challenge. But nothing is less safe as the two men, once allies are now rivals.

Fight against hooliganism

his fourth term, Michel Platini intends to place under the sign of some fights including one conducted against hooliganism.

 “It’s been a long time since we had not had to face such a rise of nationalism and extreme in Europe. This insidious trend is found in our stadiums because football is the company’s reflection, “he has warned. A qualifying match for Euro 2016 has degenerated between Albania and Serbia. Racist insults bloom in Italian stadiums and recent outbursts of Chelsea supporters have shown that

And Michel Platini called “a decision of government awareness to prevent us reliving the dark hours of a not so distant past, a past or hooligans and fanatics of all kinds were maintained law in some stadiums in Europe. ” “Some of us have experienced that time. For me it was there just thirty years ( Editor’s note: the Heysel tragedy ) … And nobody wants to go through that again. ” The boss of European football advocates in these cases a “hardening of stadium bans at European level” and “the creation of a European police sport”

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