Banned UEFA President Michel Platini awaits to hear the result of his appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport for his ban from all soccer-related activity.
PARIS,
FRANCE (
FILE - JUNE 10,
2015) (
REUTERS FOR AGENCY POOL -
ACCESS ALL)
1. MICHEL PLATINI WALKING THROUGH COURTYARD AND ENTERING ELYSEE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE
2. VARIOUS OF PLATINI, FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, AND
EURO 2016 CHAIRMAN JACQUES LAMBERT POSING WITH
SIGN SHOWING
DATE OF
FIRST EURO 2016
MATCH
3. PLATINI SHAKING HANDS WITH HOLLANDE OUTSIDE ELYSEE / HOLLANDE SHAKING HANDS WITH LAMBERT
ZURICH,
SWITZERLAND (FEBRUARY 15, 2016) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
****WARNING CONTAINS
FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY***
4. PLATINI ARRIVING AT
FIFA SURROUNDED BY JOURNALISTS
(SOUNDBITE) (
French) UEFA PRESIDENT, MICHEL PLATINI SAYING:
"They (the Ethic
Commission) were saying everything in the newspapers before. No need for me to come to learn what the newspaper already said. So now, this is the appeal commission so, we'll see what will happen. But maybe this is not over, there will still be things after."
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "Do you have new defence elements?"
"
Yes, today we have witnesses who are coming."
JOURNALIST ASKING: "Which one?"
"You'll see them arriving I think."
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "In what state of mind are you?"
"Well, look! No but I'm fine, I'm fine."
JOURNALISTS INTERVIEWING PLATINI
(SOUNDBITE) (French) UEFA PRESIDENT, MICHEL PLATINI SAYING:
"
I've done nothing and I'm not afraid of anything."
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "Is this what upset you the most? This injustice feeling?"
"Yes, it upset me a lot. 60 years, when
I never received a red card, not even on the field, so
..."
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "Do you have the feeling that you have been betrayed by Mr. Blatter?"
"No, not at all. Because he is in the same situation than I am."
5. PLATINI ENTERING FIFA HEADQUARTERS
6. ENTRANCE OF FIFA
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (FILE - DECEMBER 8, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY***
7. PLATINI'S
CAR ARRIVING AT COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR
SPORT
8. (SOUNDBITE) (French) UEFA PRESIDENT, MICHEL PLATINI, SAYING:
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "Why did you want to come in person at
CAS today?"
"Why? Because I think this is my place"
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "
What do you want to say to this independent judges?"
"I won't say more than what I said to you. I said the truth, all the truth and nothing else but the truth. I swear it."
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "How are you?"
"I'm fine."
9. (SOUNDBITE) (
English) UEFA PRESIDENT, MICHEL PLATINI, SAYING:
JOURNALIST, ASKING: "Are you confident for today?"
"Of course. Of course."
STARA PAZOVA, SERBIA (FILE - MAY 14,
2011) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
10. PLATINI (RIGHT), SERBIAN DEPUTY
PRIME MINISTER IVICA DACIC (CENTRE) AND FIFA PRESIDENT,
SEPP BLATTER (LEFT) WALKING / PLATINI TRYING TO
HEAD BALL
11. BLATTER STANDING
12. BLATTER, DACIC AND PLATINI WALKING
13. BLATTER SHAKING HANDS AND STANDING WITH CHILDREN/BLATTER AND PLATINI SHAKING HANDS WITH CHILDREN
14. BLATTER AND PLATINI TALKING TO CHILDREN
ST PETERSBURG,
RUSSIA (FILE - JULY 25, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)
15. BLATTER TALKING WITH PLATINI AT A NATIONAL
TEAM COACHES IN TEAM SEMINAR ROOM
16. BLATTER AND PLATINI TALKING / MUTKO SITTING LEFT OF BLATTER
STORY: Banned UEFA President Michel Platini awaits to hear on Friday (April 29) the result of his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport for his ban from all soccer-related activity.
The former French international
Platini is appealing against a six-year ban from taking part in international football activity.
The ban is related to a payment of two million
Swiss francs ($2.09 million) made to the
Frenchman in 2011 and was imposed by world soccer's governing body, FIFA.
Platini has said the payment was for work he did as a FIFA advisor between
1999 and
2002 and the nine-year delay in payment was due to
FIFA's financial situation.
Platini was banned from soccer activities for ethics violations in December along with former
FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Frenchman Platini's ban, along with that of Blatter, was upheld but reduced from eight to six years by FIFA's appeals committee in February.
- published: 04 May 2016
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