Only the color of the ball on June 19 news
"Platini must be the worst person in European football at the moment, so he can become UEFA president"
In June 2015, at the threshold of then FIFA president Blatter's successful re-election, a journalist from England, Reimer, wrote such a sentence in his column.
Four days later, Blatter announced his resignation and FIFA was embroiled in a bribery scandal at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Three months later, Platini took the flight, which had no return.
When Swiss police launched a criminal investigation into Blatter, the triumphant UEFA president was planning to run for a new FIFA president.
But what awaited Platini was an eight-year-long grounding ticket.
Since stepping down in 2016, when Platini reappeared in the public eye, it was because of a news of arrest and the Qatar World Cup that could not be avoided.
I wonder if Platini, who has repeatedly emphasized his innocence, will at some point get bored and regret his choice to step into the "political arena"?
After all, the teenager who blew the breeze on the banks of the Seine many years ago was the captain and soul of French romantic football.
1. The king of the times
Names such as Mbappe and Pogba represent french football today, groping forward along the timeline, and legendary names such as Henry and Zidane jumped on the paper.
But if you mention the person in the picture above, you will definitely attract the same praise, "Platini! France! ”
This is the case, the French man known in the new era as the president of UEFA, has a brilliant resume no less than Zidane's in the player era.
Michel Platini was born in the midsummer of 1955 to an Italian expatriate family in Lorraine, France.
The avid fan Grandpa became the leader of Platini's love affair with football, and in the "athletes' coffee shop" opened by the old Platini, the walls were plastered with posters of the stars.
The youngest, weakest, and shyest of his peers, the excitement and excitement of the Gallic lands did not seem to fit into platini, a descendant of Italians.
But a persistent father became his best teacher, and in order to raise his son, the father quit his job as a math teacher and became the youth coach of the Nancy club.
The condition for this move was to have Platini join the Nancy Junior Team.
In order to make up for the physical disadvantage, the young Platini worked hard to hone another trait that belonged to football, skill.
In rainy Lorraine, Platini and the black-and-white ball became ubiquitous partners.
At this time on the South American continent, there was also a "wild child" who was playing on the street with his bare feet and his friends, his name was Maradona.
The coincidence of the times sent their own kings to both continents at the same time, but people at that time did not know what kind of shock these two children would bring to football in the future.
2. Preparing for the World Cup but wearing a green hat against friends
In the summer of 1982, the World Cup arrived as scheduled.
But for Platini, who was already the first person in the world at that time, it was extremely bad.
Just before the start of the World Cup, the French media suddenly broke the news that the wife of the then national team captain Platini had an affair with his teammate Larios.
This shock shocked French football to the letter, and for the French who aspire to make the World Cup, Platini is the absolute leader of the world.
However, at such an important juncture, Platini's head was green.
What is even more indignant is that Larios is not only his partner in the national team, the two are also teammates of the club, but such an intimate relationship has suffered such a deep betrayal, Platini's inner pain can be imagined.
But the World Cup will not be delayed for anyone, and the match that arrived as promised made the manager blush.
Facing England in the opening match of the group stage, the good partners of the former club were strangers on the field, and France lost 3-1.
Such tension spread through the team, and by this time the French team had reached the edge of the cliff.
The manager immediately made a decision, decisively "blocked" Larios, and had a long talk with Platini, as the captain of the team, he naturally understood that the top priority was to ensure that he qualified.
So for the sake of the team, Platini regained his strength and led France all the way to the final four.
But Sevilla's Pisjuan Stadium has witnessed the Germans' miracle of pulling two goals in extra time, kneeling and crying for a penalty in a penalty shootout, and now becoming the manager of Tianjin Teda.
And Platini, he sat silently in the arena, in the carnival of the Germans, leaving the sweat-soaked 10 lonely back.
After losing the semi-finals, Platini chose to bid farewell to the national team for a while to calm the double whammy of his life and the field. Larios was permanently expelled from the national team after playing in the third and fourth place finals.
The following season, Platini chose to leave the sad part of France and leave Italy to join Juventus.
3. Three regrets and one happiness
Back in His 20s, when the talented teenager began to lead the small club Nancy to France, people realized the amazing talent hidden in the child's body.
Nancy, Saint-Etiennes, Juventus, three clubs are the whole of the genius's career.
And the robe with the rooster printed on it is the weather vane of his way to the ball king.
The 1978 World Cup was Platini's major debut, the first time France had made it to the tournament since 1966.
At that time, the French team was not as bright as the stars at the turn of the century, and it would not be such a talented person today, and this 23-year-old hairy boy was the biggest reliance of this French team against strong enemies.
Fairy tales and heroic stories are always beautiful, but the cruelty of reality is what distinguishes reality from it.
The naïve Platini and France had to accept the dilemma of returning home after the group stage, and maradona, a barefoot teenager from Argentina, lifted the golden trophy.
It wasn't until the 1984 European Championship that the ill will of fate finally blossomed at Platini's feet.
The European Championship, which is a miracle, was no less exciting than the Summer of France in '98.
5 wins 5 wins! 9 goals in a single session!
Platini scored in 5 games, scoring 1, 3, 3, 1 and 1 respectively, and the French team only scored 15 goals in total.
When Platini rewrote the score with a free kick on the night of the final, the history of French football was rewritten at his feet.
But the World Cup became Platini's eternal pain, and in 1986, when he tried to charge the Gold Cup for the third time, he fell again to the roar of German chariots.
A year later, Platini announced his retirement from the national team.
4. Game of Thrones - The Rupture of G14 and Barca 'Daddy'
"In Game of Thrones, if you don't win, there is only one dead end, no middle ground"
In the American drama "Game of Thrones", Queen Cersei uses this sentence to explain the core of the whole drama - power.
From player to president of UEFA, Platini spent 20 years;
From the soul of France to the suspect in the "bribery" case, Platini only took 8 years.
When Platini was elected president of UEFA, the G14 league established by Real Madrid, Milan, Juve and other giants at that time also had a huge voice in European football, which seriously restricted the authority of UEFA.
But just a year later, the G14 alliance of the various giants fell apart, and Platini laughed and monopolized power.
According to media reports, Barca was the main contributor to the disintegration of the G14 alliance, and the Red and Blue Legion, which firmly defected to Platini's side, also opened its own "universe" era in the next few years.
In the 2008-09 season, Platini did not shy away from saying: "Barca is the football I admire, they not only play beautifully, but they also do a good job in youth training, they are very much in line with my football philosophy." ”
After Platini made this statement, in the following years, Barca were a great success in the Champions League.
Until Platini's end of class in 2016, Barca repeatedly won the Champions League either by drawing a lottery or benefiting from controversial penalties, and won the Champions League three times.
Drogba angrily rebuked the referee after the game: shame
The most famous of these is the battle between Chelsea and Barcelona, which was later called the "Stamford Bridge Massacre".
In the second leg of the 2008-09 Champions League semi-final, Barca challenged Chelsea away, and the referee Henin repeatedly ignored the obvious handball, pulling and other actions of barca players in the penalty area, and finally Iniesta drew in stoppage time, helping Barca to advance in a thrilling way.
In the following years, such controversial penalties continued, and Buttsk successfully deceived the referee to send Motta off with his "acting skills" in the match against Inter;
AC Milan were awarded a penalty in a defensive tug-of-war with a corner kick that had not yet been fired;
Arsenal striker Van Persie was bizarrely reddish for failing to hear the referee whistle to shoot after offside;
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What is power?
This is the most beautiful gift God has given mankind, and the sharpest instrument of suicide.
The above controversy is only a symptom of the power game for Platini, who has always called himself a "reformer" and has repeatedly "moved" the European football world at the beginning of his tenure.
The expansion of the European Championship and the Fiscal Fairness Act have all given Platinini enough popularity and capital.
During his 8 years in office, UEFA got closer and closer to FIFA under Platini, which was very different from the style of UEFA in the past, and before the FIFA corruption case was uncovered, almost everyone decided that Platini was the next FIFA president.
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However, he did not expect that the illegal acceptance of 2 million Swiss francs from Blatter in 2015 became evidence of the ruin of his political career.
FIFA's 8-year ban (later changed to 4 years) ended his monopoly of power in Europe.
Today, Platini is even more in need of jail for what he has done in the 2022 World Cup.
The pro-American attitude before the vote and the sudden change in voting for Qatar became an opportunity for the United States to investigate the FIFA corruption case.
Four years from 2015 to the present, it still looks like it's just beginning. (Allure)