UEFA President Platini To Be Replaced In September

UEFA President Platini To Be Replaced In September

UEFA will elect a replacement for former president Michel Platini at a meeting in Athens on September 14.

Platini was banned from all football-related activity last year, after allegedly receiving a “disloyal payment” from then-FIFA president Sepp Blatter in 2011.

The Frenchman, who continues to deny wrongdoing, has since seen that suspension reduced to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),appeared before sport’s highest tribunal on Friday to appeal against his six-year ban from football and the suspended Uefa president said he was optimistic he would win his case, for which the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter is among the witnesses.

Platini, who arrived in a taxi for the hearing at the court of arbitration for sport (Cas), is hoping that the ban will be overturned in time for the Euro 2016 tournament, which will be held in his native France in June and July,but they did not overturn his ban when the verdict was delivered on 9 May

After that decision, Platini confirmed his intention to resign.

UEFA has been without a president since the revelations and a new one will be chosen in September, meaning European football’s governing body will not have someone in the role permanently during UEFA EURO 2016 in France, which gets under way in less than a month’s time.

The closing deadlines for candidates is 20 July