Former UEFA president, Michel Platini, has vowed to return to football after a Swiss court cleared him of corruption allegations on Friday.
Platini was also FIFA’s vice president, before his suspension in 2015 for “illegal” payments received from disgraced former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter.
After the vedict, the 62-year-old said it was “the end of a long nightmare for my family and those close to me.”
The investigation into the receipt of a $2million payment in 2011, denied Platini the chance to run for the FIFA presidency in 2016, while he was also removed as UEFA president.
He has however declared he will return to the game.
“I will come back: where, when, how? It’s too early to say. But I will come back into football. Because football is my life and I deny anyone the right to deprive me of my life,” he said.
Platini was also FIFA’s vice president, before his suspension in 2015 for “illegal” payments received from disgraced former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter.
After the vedict, the 62-year-old said it was “the end of a long nightmare for my family and those close to me.”
The investigation into the receipt of a $2million payment in 2011, denied Platini the chance to run for the FIFA presidency in 2016, while he was also removed as UEFA president.
He has however declared he will return to the game.
“I will come back: where, when, how? It’s too early to say. But I will come back into football. Because football is my life and I deny anyone the right to deprive me of my life,” he said.
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