adminSAO PAULO. — Uefa president Michel Platini withdrew his support from Fifa counterpart Sepp Blatter yesterday, plunging world football into open warfare.
“I am supporting him no longer, it’s finished,” said Platini.
“He knows it, I told him. I think Fifa needs a new breath of fresh air.”
Platini, who himself had to come out last week and deny he had been pressured by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to vote for Qatar in the controversial and scandal-tainted bid race for the 2022 World Cup, said he agreed with his fellow Uefa members that it was time for 78-year-old Blatter, who has been in power since 1998, to call it a day when his mandate ends next year.
“I share the European position,” said 58-year-old Platini.
“A new mandate for him would not be good for football.
“But he is a person one has to respect and he has all my respect.” — AFP.
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