Platini - The New Blatter?

[bibblebub]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/franck-ribery-michel-platini-vows-to-ban-midfielder-for-bayern-munich-matches-if-refuses-to-pay-for-france-9717954.html

Last month, Franck Ribery (who always looks like he's the evil Neville brother) announced that he's retired from international football, no more playing for France.

Now, in a newspaper interview, Platini has said "He cannot decide by himself whether he will play for France or not" and "If coach Didier Deschamps calls him up he must come to the national team. If he does not show up he will be suspended for three Bayern Munich games."

As UEFA President, does Platini have the power to force a club in one country to suspend an overseas player just because he doesn't want to play for his national team? Or does it simply show that Platini is as big an embarrassment as Blatter at the top level of football administration?

[Jomlett]

From the torygraph...

There is a FIFA rule in place which forces players to accept national team call-ups to prevent them - or rather their clubs - from picking and choosing which internationals they play.

But national teams usually respect a player's decision to retire from international duty.

That wasn't the case, however, back in 2006 when then France coach Raymond Domenech forced Claude Makelele, then 33, to turn up to represent the national team despite having announced his international retirement after the World Cup.

That led to Makelele's then Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho accusing Domenech of treating his player "like a slave".

[ChillDoubt]

Platini is lacking a spine. After slagging Blatter just prior to the WC he then decides not to oppose his application for another term as FIFA head.
The whole organisation of football at european and world level needs a complete change of hierarchy, full stop.

[bibblebub]

I see that Platini was a vice-president of the French Football Federation back in 2006 so he was likely to have been involved in the Makelele situation. Perhaps he has a bee in his bonnet about players deciding for themselves when they want to retire from international duties.

I agree about his pathetic impersonation of a jellyfish in recent months; there won't have been deals done in the background because these people just don't do those shady sorts of thing, do they?

[RandyMarsh]

is this not a joke, are they not best buddies?

[ChillDoubt]

We go from this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27810126

to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28964954

in the space of a few weeks, so everyone can keep their cosy little arrangements.

And of course, it had nothing to do with this........:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/03/uefa-president-qatar-bid-bin-hammam