Football: ‘Platini will be a good FIFA president’

LONDON: Michel Platini will be a good president for Fifa, according to incumbent Sepp Blatter. The Swiss, whose spell at the helm expires in 2015, believes Europe will fight to keep control of world football’s governing body with Uefa president Platini of France a natural candidate. “Platini is ready, if he wants [it],” said Blatter. “He will not be the same president that I am, because everyone is different, but he will be a good president.”

Published in The Express Tribune, January 18^th, 2012.