Platini still believes he should be the next FIFA
president.
Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini insists he is still the
right man to lead FIFA.
Platini is suspended for 90 days as FIFA's Ethics Committee
investigate a payment he received from the embattled governing
body in 2011.
Despite that, the Frenchman remains one of the seven
candidates standing in the presidential election on February 26
next year and the 60-year-old believes he is still right for the
role.
"I am, in all humility, the most able to run world football," he told
The Telegraph.
Platini also explained the payment that is being investigated,
saying the £1.35million was for work he did for FIFA president
Sepp Blatter – albeit coming nine years after it was undertaken.
"The two million [Swiss Francs] represents the equivalent of four
years' salary arrears that FIFA owed me when I was the
president's special adviser," he said.
"The president himself offered me a contract and a salary that I
accepted.
"So to be clear: was there work provided? Yes. Is an oral
contract legal in Switzerland? Yes. Did I have the right to
reclaim my money even nine years later? Yes. Did I produce a
proper invoice as FIFA required? Yes. Was the money declared
to the taxman? Yes.
"FIFA had the right, after five years, not to pay me, but they
decided to respect what was a perfectly valid arrangement."
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