The Inevitable. Michel Platini’s candidacy for the presidency of FIFA finally was clear. After all, there is more than he who can revive FIFA. The boss of UEFA dusted the European organization. We’re counting on him to do the sprucing up the side of the seat of the international body. In his own way: politically correct . Michel Platini had calculated everything in its progress towards the supreme seat. Except maybe the accelerated fall of Sepp Blatter, his former mentor turned rival. This is probably why he had not gone to the front at the last election, aware that his work lobbying world was not yet finished. But today not to go look like a sign of weakness. And weakness at Michel Platini, that does not exist. Simply return to the improbable drawing the child Joeuf to be convinced that nothing can stop it.
As a teenager, the child of Italian immigrant is reset by FC Metz neighbor physical impairment. Nancy recovers. To enable it to launch a stratospheric career. Everywhere, the kid itself as owner but also as boss. At first Nancy, Saint-Etienne but also in the France team in Olympic or A. In his first selection, insurance fascinated when intimate the order to Henri Michel, his captain, to let him pull a coup- franc. He obviously transformed. Sure of his strength, Platini will quickly become Taulier the Blues. In 1982, he realizes that France is too small for him and ventures in Italy, Juventus. Where he soon will wreak havoc in the ultra-yet closed Italian defenses. Insatiable goalscorer but also engineering smuggler Platini knows to be loved by its partners because it shares his talent and shines others as much as him.
A successful 98 World Cup three times
Ballons d’Or at the time this award still meant something, Platini will succeed in 1984 to win a title, the first for the team of France, almost all by himself. Euro in a home, Platoche mark nine goals, including one in the final. Enough to mention a few failures of 1982 and 1986, two World Cups where diminished by physical problems, he even manages to climb the Blues in the semifinals, including that tragic night in Seville and this afternoon fantastic against Brazil in Guadalajara. After stopping his career in 1987, exhausted, he is called to the rescue of a French selection in crisis. In 1988, he became coach of the Blues, a little late to qualify the team for the Italian World but early enough to make a nearly perfect campaign in the qualifiers for Euro 1992. A missed test drives Platini to go .
But Platini and his intelligence, foresight and cunning is still useful in French sport. Olympic torch bearer in 1992, Platoche can see up close what it is like organizing a big competition. And when France engages in the race to the World 98, Platini is obviously called to assist Fernand Sastre. A new global success for France and for his former playmaker, who will continue to get a place in the sun in world football. In 2002, this member of the Executive Committee of UEFA . Nobody is fooled. The future of Platini will go through the office of the European football boss. So much for Lennart Johansson, president since 1990 but beat January 26, 2007 at the age of 77 years by a former footballer whose slogan “football footballers.” At the time, one of the main supporters of the French is nothing but Sepp Blatter, who has brought to the Executive Committee of FIFA. The world is small, and the friends of yesterday are the next opponents.
Favorite to succeed Blatter
If he can create legitimacy and re-election is that Platini is a political ace, able to seduce some big countries while combining many small. At UEFA, he quickly realized that the smaller countries of the former socialist space was a breeding ground for him. Re-elected by acclamation in 2011 and 2015, he discouraged his opponents to come trample her flowerbeds . Its program for the 2007 election: 1. “Gathering, reunite the football family”; 2. “Giving power to the elected representatives and mainly to the presidents of national associations”; 3. “Strengthening solidarity exchanges between associations and members”; 4. “To recognize the specificity of sport, especially football, in European law”; 5. “Ensuring the future of our competitions all practices and develop football. “A
transposed European program worldwide for FIFA, which should probably be used to frame his summary program in the letter sent to all the patrons of Federations. A political gesture to turn to them first, future voters, rather than preventing them in the press. The candidate diplomat Platini is so and today, despite the criticism it is sometimes the object, the substance and the form, it seems best equipped to succeed Blatter, although the latter, consider themselves betrayed, should not make his task easier . But at 60, the French are ready for this fight. After having weighed the pros and cons, it’s ready for a campaign that could allow him to show that he is the world number one, like the time when he was a player. A time when already he saw everything before the others, his outstanding play point guard and the talented finisher. To him now to lead the electoral game and conclude its work in style. As in 2007 …
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