It is a sequence of three big minutes, recorded last Monday at the end of its session at the federal criminal court in Bellinzona (Switzerland) and broadcast this Sunday at RTS.
Suspected of fraud in the case of the alleged unfair payment of two million Swiss francs, Michel Platini delivers all his bitterness against Fifa.
The verdict of his trial will be delivered on July 8, but the former boss of European football has already said: “I lost, Fifa has already won.
It's been seven years since they stripped me of any ambition I could possibly have had within world football.
It's finish.
Seven years is over, they won.
Moreover, there is a man who worked in communication for Fifa and who said:
Anyway, we don't care, even if there is nothing, because, in seven years, professionally , he will be dead.
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"I lost, FIFA won," Michel Platini told @ 7:30 p.m. RTS.
Suspected of fraud, the former boss of European football admits to being professionally dead, but wants to "fight injustice".
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Sidelined from any football-related activity in 2015, the former playmaker for the France team assures RTS that he is "armored against injustice".
“When we played football matches, which we lost because of a referee's decision, for 20-30 years, we are a little shielded.
But injustice hurts much more his loved ones, his family, his children, his grandchildren, because they are not prepared to suffer such injustices”, he regrets.
Very marked by this feeling of injustice, he continues: “I am attacking two very strong organizations: Swiss justice and the billions of FIFA.
It's hard to fight them, but I still fight against them because I know there is a collusion and they did a lot of things between themselves.
Humanly, you are in the fight, the battle.
It's something I like and have always liked.
I don't give up, I won't give up and I will go all the way”.
He tackles the "shameful system" which benefits the world body
Accused of having received an unfair payment from Fifa in 2011, Platini has always defended himself from any illegality.
Swiss justice has requested a year and eight months in prison suspended against him and the former president of the body, Sepp Blatter.
“Our affair will not end here, because I think that there is a shameful system at the level of Fifa which does, but that, I understood it very late, that there is money for to be elected, to give, and that there are all these commissions - ethics commission, TAS - which are the armed wing to protect themselves.
FIFA is held by an administration which has all the means to protect itself.
It's hard to beat them.
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Laconically, Platini adds that he now aspires to "think about other things, about what I could possibly do for the good of football, because I think I am in the good of football, as I have been for 50 years. , unlike other people.