Platini, ex player of France and ex president of the UEFA

FOR THE FRENCH, THE ARRIVAL OF THE SUPERLEAGUE IS "INEVITABLE"

Platini's surprising prediction about the Super League and the future of FIFA and UEFA

Published:21/06/2024 - 18:20h

Updated:21/06/2024 - 18:20h

Michel Platini has spoken about the possible arrival of the Super League to football. The former French player assured that the project is "inevitable" and would lead to the 'extinction' of FIFA and UEFA

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Michel Platini went back to appear in front of the media and his statements did not happen unobserved for anybody. The legend of the French and ex football president of the UEFA, until it was imputed by a crime of fiscal fraud, spoke for 'Il Figaro' and reviewed his career, his path like director and revealed his vision on the immediate future of the football.

When being questioned on the feasibility of the project of the Superliga, the winner of three Balloons of Gold ensured that his arrival is ineludible and will derive in an end 'tragic' for the big current institutions. "It will exist the Superliga and perhaps no longer exist neither the FIFA neither the UEFA, although I think that will follow managing the national federations and no the clubs. The football is a business, the players are a business and the clubs are marks", began saying Platini.

"After the sentence of the European Court that established that the FIFA and UEFA no longer have the monopoly of the competitions, the football will explode. Surely it will contest the Superliga. A lot of people like me to which does not like him the FIFA and the UEFA puts in contact with me. The times change. The Superliga is unavoidable", continued the French.

Besides, it sustained that the 'irruption' of the competition promoted by Florentino Pérez had been "impossible" during his mandate. "It would have been impossible with me at the head of the UEFA, after all, the G14 that wanted to finish with the football. Nowadays, to anybody matters him Aleksander Ceferin. It did the mistaken calculations, changed the League of Champions only to distribute more parties and money to the clubs that want to manage it", manifested.

His election between Mbappé and Haaland

Platini Ensured that the 'rivalry' between Messi and Cristiano will mutate in a duel between Mbappé and Haaland, being the French his footballer preferred. "To Messi and Christian had them during ten years and now will have to Mbappé-Haaland. I create more in Mbappé that in the Norwegian. Mbappé Is the best, but does not impress me. Has talent, even if it fails too many goals because it goes too fast. Kylian Is a company, as all the big players of today", concluded.

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