"I'll be back," Michel Platini assured in an interview on Swiss television RTS on Friday, as the suspension of the former UEFA president ends on 7 October. "I'll come back, I do not know where, I do not know how, I can not stay on a suspension, even if it's a suspension made by morons," said the triple gold ball.
The former captain of the Blues was suspended 4 years in 2015 by the internal justice of Fifa for a controversial payment of 2 million Swiss francs, received from the President of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, also suspended. The suspension of Michel Platini from any activity related to football will end on Monday, October 7, 2019.
"I never felt suspended"
"I was the victim of a form of conspiracy, yes, absolutely, between the people of FIFA and the people of the Swiss Public Ministry (MPC, Ed.) There was an agreement, a cordial agreement between the FIFA and the MPC to fend me.I do not say it is a conspiracy of the Swiss state, "says former Blue. Gianni Infantino, FIFA's current boss and Platini's former right-hand man at UEFA, "he may not want me to come back," said the former Juventus star.
At the age of 64, the former UEFA president, prevented from running for FIFA's presidency because of his suspension, also said he would publish a book on "the last 20 years of his life," in which he was going to say "the truth". "I've never felt suspended," he said, "how can a private box suspend a footballer?"