“The story may seem surprising” … So Michel Platini explained, point by point, in an interview with “World” this Monday, October 19th. This is the first time since his suspension by the ethics committee of FIFA as the UEFA President, for now still running for president of the department which runs the world football, is expressed in details these two million Swiss francs received in 2011 by Sepp Blatter. A defense exercise which the former number 10 of the Blues is not used.
The sum
These two million Swiss francs (1.8 million euros) that Swiss justice were interested in the remuneration of labor “football adviser” conducted between 1999 and 2002 with Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa since 1998. Michel Platini has already said, and repeat the journalist ” World “came to meet him in his Swiss apartment. In 1998 the two men met and the agreement is concluded.
‘? How will you’, asks Blatter
I answer: ‘One Million.’
‘What?’
‘From what you want, rubles, books and dollars.’ (…)
he replies. ‘Okay, 1 million Swiss francs per year “
And that million Michel Platini assured it” really works and many people can attest. “He works, certainly, but always quoted him in” Le Monde “, he does not touch anything” for several months “. When he finally asked his due, Sepp Blatter evokes the grid wages, arguing that as “the general secretary earns 300,000 Swiss francs,” it can not be paid a million. It is therefore concluded that Platini will be a contract (written) 300,000 Swiss francs and will complement ‘later’. It affects 1 million in the early 2000s, and the payment of two million, occurred in 2011, would be the balance of the total amount.
The absence of a written contract
In “The World”, Michel Platini admits that the payment of 2 million is not based on a written contract. Anyway, “in Swiss law, an oral contract is considered a written contract,” he explains. Problem: there was indeed a written contract for the first part of the payments in the early 2000s, and this is what makes these two million suspects. Why the light?
For a long time I neither lawyer or agent who negotiate for me. And it was a man-to-man thing. It was to become FIFA president. Fifa! I trusted. “
When asked Friday by Swiss radio RROTV Sepp Blatter had already understood that the payment was not based on a written contract, and that s ‘was a “ gentleman’s .” In addition to arouse the interest of justice, the absence of a written contract could lead several European federations to withdraw their support for the French, as already FA made the Friday, pending the end of legal proceedings.
The (long) period of payment
And why wait 9 years to demand his due Michel Platini explained simply that it is “not a money man” Moreover, the money, he “had enough”:.
I ask not because I do not miss. You know, I started making money in 17 years. I do not even know it was possible in football. “
If Platini “do not ask because [he] does not fail,” he acknowledges, however: “I should have to sign an acknowledgment of debt.” To explain the delay in payment, the UEFA president had already said in September: “Mr. Blatter had told me at the beginning of my work advising that it would be possible to pay all of my emoluments immediately , mainly because of the financial situation of FIFA at this moment “… However, the instance was the beneficiary at that time.
A phone Blatter?
After the announcement of the suspension of the two men for 90 days, the press questioned the interests of each other to do this business brought to light: a blow to cause Sepp Blatter signed his former protégé in his inexorable fall? “I do not know” answers Platini questioned the theory of revenge organized by one he “admired”.
Let’s say I have my doubts. (…) In any case, all that came out from the moment I resigned and asked where I was a candidate. “
Vengeance or not it will take more to destabilize Michel Platini, who repeats have “always wanted” to be candidate for the presidency of FIFA (the election is expected to be held late February, subject to a possible schedule change). “C e annoys me the most is to be put in the same bag as the others. I find it shameful to be dragged through the mud “But even dirty, the former Ballon d’Or triple dream still savior.
I am the only one to ensure that FIFA again become the home of football but whenever I approach the sun, like Icarus, it burns all over. “
A. R.
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