Nostalgia is a bad counselor. For a generation, passionate or not the football, the name of Michel Platini of France smells 70s and 80s with all that that raises madeleines in Proust or “well beautiful images we’d like to see often “. With him, there is a package: his kicks from above foam mannequins to train, the epic of the Greens, the romance of the lost semifinal against Germany in 1982, his nine goals the Euro-84, turn bad player, its valves intact his passion for the game at 60, his battle for the financial fair play, a calming oasis in a rotten sport the money, her overweight …
So naturally, Platoche, we like it. But like all great players, it has its dark side. The Heysel tragedy, for example. Platini, captain of Juve, it is justified not to have played the “shame game” that he did with intelligence, but of having let his joy erupted scoring the penalty of victory. As we know, the big players are also capable of evil acts, even if they make them with more grandeur than others.
As for his record as head of UEFA, it is far from make it the model under which the football world needs to put the game in the center. Two examples: the gift tax attributed to the structures responsible for the organization of Euro 2016 in France first, then its role as agent of influence in the awarding of the World in Qatar. What would a Fifa under the chairmanship of former Number 10? Rather Platoche or rather Platini? Probably between. “This is a game that has no truth which has no law, he said to Marguerite Duras. Who has nothing. And you try to explain it. “ A whole program …
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