The FFF, it will be without him. Michel Platini repeated on Monday that he would not seek any position at the French Football Federation. “I made a statement in July when I was cleared of my business in Switzerland, I said that I would no longer return to football institutions. That’s it, end of story! “said the former UEFA boss on Monday on RMC. “I will not return to the institutions of football. It seems to me that the French Federation is part of the football authorities, so I will not return to football or to the French Federation … ”, he hammered, by way of clarification.
Asked what he would do if he was offered a job, the interested party replied: “But no one will come to get me (…) Power, it is taken or it is not taken and I have no desire to to take it. I have given enough, I was vice-president of the French Federation thirty years ago, I have done everything, that’s fine, that’s enough, that’s good. »
“There is no crisis” in French football
However, the triple Ballon d’Or, now 67, does not slam the door to the world of football: “My story may not be over, there may be other things to do in football. I said, the last time, that if there was an opportunity, something that I would like, I would do it, but not today. »
Asked about the current crisis of the FFF, which led to the resignation of President Noël Le Graët, Platini relativized: “The structures of French football are good, French football is not bad, we have been world champions in 1998, finalists of the World Cup (…) There is no crisis, it is the crisis of a president, not the crisis of French football”, he estimated.