Michel Platini

...is estimated to be worth £15 billion.  £3BN LOST IN RECESSION That fortune makes the sheikh worth more than twice as much as Roman Abramovich, who has topped all five previous Football Rich Lists. The Chelsea owner is said to have lost more than £3 billion...

...footballers ever. The likes of Diego Maradona, Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Marco Van Basten, Michel Platini, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, and Paolo Maldini have played in Italy's top division, and they are just a handful of the great players. None of them would...

...was due to host the 2009 Champions League final seem to have prompted a change of plan. Uefa president Michel Platini attended the AS Roma v Chelsea Champions League in Rome in November to check out the stadium, giving the Olimpico a full vote of confidence...

...Given that this year's Champions League final is due to be played at the Olimpico on May 27th, Platini had attended the AS Roma v Chelsea Champions League game in mid-November in order to check out the stadium's suitability. Although he gave the Olimpico a...

...club FC Porto are set to play in next season's European Champions League, Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Monday, despite an initial UEFA decision to bar them for being found guilty in a match-fixing scandal. European football's ruling body UEFA overturned...

...sense something within it, a snuffling creature that stalks us nightly through the deserted Debenhams Blue Cross sale aisles, Jimmy Bullard's head on Joleon Lescott's shoulders with Woolworth's pick 'n' mix flying saucers for eyes and a skewered Michel Platini...

...Madrid’s hopes of registering both their two new winter signings, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Lassana Diarrà for the next phase of the Champions League are fast disappearing after UEFA president, Michel Platini personally told Los Blancos supremo, Ramón Calderón...

...you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Meeting at the House of European Football, in Nyon, Switzerland, and chaired by UEFA President Michel Platini, the UEFA Executive Committee concluded its last gathering of 2008...

...— their sides’ tactics were centred on them. We certainly haven’t seen Gerrard at his best for England and that is what Fabio Capello must achieve as he considers how to turn the national team into a unit capable of progressing beyond the quarter-finals of...

...from the ground that stored up so many memories and a pitch that has been graced by luminaries such as Ruud Gullit and Michel Platini. Perhaps the most famous Love Street resident was Sir Alex Ferguson, who was manager at the club for four years between 1974...

...brilliant is that people tend to take it badly when you reject them. A year ago, Andrei Arshavin could probably have left Zenit St Petersburg without too much fuss, but his performances in the Uefa Cup and then the European Championship ended all that. Now,...

...pressure on the UEFA to allow them to list both new signings, but Liverpool - the coming opponent in the CL- protested. Michel Platini will probably not bulge and stick to the rules. This will put even more pressure on the responsible man for the screw up,...

...salaries does not make economic sense and would make English clubs uncompetitive in European competitions. UEFA president Michel Platini has advocated curbing wages by introducing a ceiling based on a percentage of a club's revenue, saying it would level the...

KIEV, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine and Poland pledged here on Monday to solve their many problems in jointly hosting the 2012 European Championship.     "We will approach 2009 as a single team and will get all cities ready for Euro 2012 in a

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said that system would "be pulling the drawbridge down" on smaller clubs, whether it was a fixed amount or linked to turnover. LONDON (AP) -- The head of the Premier League said Monday that capping

...Nineties was undoubtedly when Serie A was the cream of European football. The likes of Diego Maradona, Michel Platini Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten, Zinedine Zidane, Lothar Matthaus and Ronaldo, to name but a few, highlight the calibre of overseas players...

...Monday that capping players' salaries does not make English clubs competitive in European competitions. UEFA president Michel Platini has advocated curbing wages by introducing a ceiling based on a percentage of a club's revenue, saying it would level the...

...smaller teams to compete with the likes of Manchester United, which he said generates 230 million pounds in revenue. Michel Platini, president of the sport’s regional body, UEFA, has previously expressed concern at rising debt levels in the game. UEFA deputy...

London - The head of the Premier League said on Monday that capping players' salaries does not make economic sense and would make English clubs uncompetitive in European competitions. UEFA president Michel Platini has advocated curbing wages by

...England - Two of 16 men alleged to have been caught on camera shouting racist and homophobic abuse at Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell are being questioned by police. Hampshire police released photos of the 16 Wednesday and said two of them, aged 28 and 36,...

...as an example. Even the Liverpool second string had too much for PSV, and PSV were at home. And though it’s great that Michel Platini is pushing for more teams like BATE and Anorthosis to be in the group stages, we’re going to consistently end up with eight...

...hotels and roads fell behind schedule. "We have full confidence in Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine," UEFA president Michel Platini said. The parties reported progressing from talks about ideas and problems to making detailed plans. They will meet again at...