Who rules Planet Football?
Cracks are appearing in the edifice of European soccer as the most powerful clubs refuse to play ball with the governing bodies
Lovers of European football will remember the dashing Frenchman, Michel Platini. The creative spur of Juventus and France in the mid-1980s was twice voted world soccer player of the year. Today, his talents are more conservatively channelled as an administrator with soccer's global and European governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA. But he has lost none of his trademark panache. As a member on FIFA's executive committee, Mr Platini has become an outspoken critic of European club football, which, he believes, is awash with self-interest and financial irresponsibility.
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