Disgraced UEFA president, Michel Platini, has admitted that it was not his destiny to become president of FIFA.
The Frenchman and outgoing FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, had their eight-year bans from football-related activity reduced to six on Wednesday.
He and Blatter were suspended, because of a 2 million Swiss franc payment made by FIFA to Platini in 2011.
“I’m not going to kill myself,” Platini told L’Equipe. “I’m not taking Lexomil [a medication to combat anxiety].
“My destiny wasn’t to be president of FIFA but to be in the French team,” he said. “I’m not a politician – I’m a football man. And today I’m well.
“But I will fight until the end against injustice, in order to be cleared, because I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.”
Blatter has also claimed that he was banned, so that Platini will not replace him as FIFA president.
“I slept well all the same because I wasn’t expecting any better from this committee,” Blatter told French radio station RTL.
“Because for a while I’ve seen that there’s been a type of plot at FIFA, first and foremost against Michel Platini so that he wouldn’t be FIFA president… I find it sad.
“Yesterday I was very disappointed because the four judges are people who’ve accompanied me these last few years – I accompanied them at FIFA.
“But above all it’s without doubt about preventing Mr. Platini from being president of FIFA.”
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