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“I lost, FIFA has already won”: Michel Platini bitter and also offensive before the verdict

2022-06-27T05:31:41.249Z


Accused of having received an unfair payment from FIFA in 2011 spoke for a Swiss media on his trial which is currently taking place.


The former UEFA president had things to say on Swiss television.

Accused of having received an unfair payment of nearly 2 million euros by FIFA in 2011 by the Swiss courts, Michel Platini risks a year and eight months in prison, suspended.

The verdict will be known on July 8.

For the Swiss media RTS, the Frenchman denounced an injustice and expressed his disgust.

I am armored against injustice,

he explained to RTS, which broadcast this interview recorded on June 20 on Sunday, near the court

.

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

”.

“I am attacking two very strong organizations: Swiss justice and FIFA billions.

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.

»

I lost, FIFA has already won.

It's been seven years since they stripped me of any ambition I might have had in world football.

It's finish.

Seven years is over, they won.

Michael Platini

Regarding the verdict expected on July 8, the legend of the Blues wants to be offensive.

And already announces the color.

Our affair will not end here, because I think that there is a shameful system at FIFA level which does, but that, I understood 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."

Sidelined from the world of football since 2015, Michel Platini also appeared bruised.

“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 FIFA communications and who said: in any case, who cares, even if there is nothing, because in seven years, professionally will be dead.

»

Source: lefigaro

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