Michel Platini (photo Lapresse)
Michel Platini: “Infantino and Ceferin, nothingness. New Champions League? Stupid”
“I know the managers of yesterday and today, all the same, Ceferin and Infantino are nothing, they only think about money. They created a stupid new Champions League, too many games. I wanted the governance of football to be entrusted to the players, to those who really know about it.” Michel Platini explains this in an interview with Repubblica.
The former Juventus number 10 sees football without imagination: “Totally! Number tens are no longer born. Coaches only know how to show a board full of diagrams, drawings, movements and arrows. But let them play freely, these boys! Those of my generation always knew what to do on the pitch: at the limit, as happened to me and Boniek with the Trap, they were asked to attack more. And the audience was happy.”
On Thiago Motta’s next Juventus coach, Le Roi says: “As a coach I know little about him, as a player he was very strong. This, however, is the time to heal, not to dream. To buy you need money, and everything now costs too much.”
They want to give the black and white 10 to Yildiz. “I’m sorry, I don’t know him”, replies Platini to Repubblica.
On Italian football. “You came back strong at club level, I like Atalanta a lot, Bologna also did very well, but your national team is out of two World Cups, even if you surprisingly won the European Championship.”
Euro 2024, who wins? “From what I see from my home, Cassis, a small and distant place, it seems to me that France, Portugal and England have something more”, Platini’s words to Repubblica. On the Champions League final won by Real Madrid (fifteenth triumph) against Borussia Dortmund: “Well, in the end Ancelotti always wins. Maybe because he’s good, what do you think? But I don’t think he would win the Champions League if, instead of Real Madrid, he led Nancy.”
Platini returned to Turin in recent days: Massimo Mauro, his old Juventus teammate, who together with Luca Vialli created a foundation to support those who are ill, he called him for a charity golf tournament organized for the purchase of endoscopic equipment against pancreatic tumors, the disease that killed Vialli. And Michel remembers the great Italian striker who passed away: “An excellent boy, apart from when he scored against me… A person who fought and helped many people: being here is like being part, at least a little, of his legacy”, he explains in interview with Repubblica.
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