Michel Platini
French football player, manager and executive (born 1955) · France · Footballers · also Italy
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Something wrong?Three consecutive Ballon d'Or wins in the mid-1980s, a midfield engine who scored like a striker, and the architect of France's 1984 European Championship triumph - until a 2015 ethics ban severed him from the game he'd risen to administer.
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Born 21 June 1955, Platini moved through Nancy and Saint-Étienne before landing at Juventus, where he claimed three straight Serie A top-scorer titles between 1983 and 1985 and led the club to the 1984-85 European Cup. Nicknamed Le Roi, he anchored the carré magique midfield that carried France to the 1984 Euros - a tournament he dominated as top scorer and best player - and to the semi-finals of two World Cups. He retired as France's all-time leading scorer, a mark that stood until 2007, and his nine European Championship goals weren't overtaken until Cristiano Ronaldo in 2021. After managing the national team from 1988 to 1992 and co-organizing the 1998 World Cup, he became UEFA president in 2007, the first former player to hold the role. In 2015 FIFA banned him over ethics violations; the ban lifted in 2023.
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