French media reports on Thursday indicated that the FFF was working on a plan with Platini, while French President Emmanuel Macron had asked whether he was interested in the job.
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The two ex-football officials had been charged by federal prosecutors in Switzerland for defrauding FIFA in connection with a payment of two million Swiss francs (2.07 million dollars) Platini received.
Once the most powerful men in world football, the pair were due to go on trial on Wednesday accused of fraud.
Once the most powerful men in world football, the pair were due to go on trial Wednesday accused of fraud.
The charges triggered their downfall from the summit of global football.
The 85-year-old Blatter and 65-year-old Platini now face a trial within months at federal criminal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland.
Former FIFA president Blatter, 85, is being investigated over a two million Swiss franc ($2.2 million, 1.85 million euro) payment in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA.
The Juventus forward’s 10th goal at the finals, via a late penalty, saw him surpass Michel Platini’s tally of nine, all of which were scored in the 1984 edition, and he added another in injury time to get to 11
Disgraced Blatter has been hit with a new suspension of six years and eight months, while former FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke has received a similar ban, along with a fine of £780,000.
The case involving the pair has to date centred around a CHF2 million (£1.6million/$2.2million/€1.8million) payment made by Blatter to Platini in 2011.
It said the money was paid inappropriately by ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter to Platini.
However, the former Uefa president — once seen as the heir apparent to Fifa’s Sepp Blatter — said on Tuesday he is unsure where and when he will return to the game that has dominated his life even after his stellar playing career with France.
“I am prepared to help to clarify all these situations” the 83-year-old Swiss said on Thursday. “I heard that they will like to speak with me.”
Former UEFA president Michel Platini said he was hurt by questioning from the French police after he was detained over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Former France captain Michel Platini was released in the early hours of Wednesday after having been questioned over the awarding of the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals to Qatar.
Michel Platini, the former head of European football association UEFA, was detained for questioning by French police on Tuesday, a judicial source told Reuters.
The 63-year-old was Uefa president from January 2007 – when he replaced the late Lennart Johansson – until he stepped down in 2016 after being banned from football for six years
Aleksander Ceferin has been re-elected to a fresh four-year term as president of European football governing body UEFA on Thursday.
France’s 2018 World Cup-winning squad and coaching staff will receive the French Legion of Honour later this year.
Blatter plans to meet Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Wednesday and watch Portugal play Morocco in a World Cup soccer match, the spokesman said.