Michel Platini, the former UEFA president and French soccer great, was arrested Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into the vote that gave the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. A judicial official told the ...

Former FIFA president and ex-UEFA president Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court. Two and a half years after they were first acquitted of the ...

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have won in court for a second time after facing trial over financial wrongdoing at Fifa. The pair have now won both times against Swiss federal prosecutors after the ...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter looks on as fake dollars fly around him during a press conference at FIFA headquarters on July 20 in Zurich. Getty Images ZURICH — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were each ...

Affectionately nicknamed Le Roi, or The King, Michel Platini bestrode the soccer field with inimitable elegance as the world's best player of the early 1980s, helping to bridge the gap between the ...

The Turkey international has been a key player under both Igor Tudor and Luciano Spalletti, earning more and more comparisons with Juventus legend Del Piero. Alessandro Del Piero and Kenan Yildiz at ...

FIFA’s former president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini have been cleared of corruption charges following a fraud trial in Switzerland. The pair stood trial over a payment of 2 million ...

PARIS — Michel Platini was in full flow when he was interrupted. “Excuse me, are you Michel Platini?” a man asked, striding over with the purpose of someone who already knew the answer to his question ...

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, former presidents of FIFA and UEFA, respectively, were indicted for fraud in Switzerland on Tuesday, according to the country’s attorney general. The Office of the ...

GENEVA (AP) — Michel Platini has launched his campaign to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, aiming to give the scandal-hit governing body “the dignity and the position it deserves.” Platini, the ...

It should have been a landmark moment for one of soccer’s chief power brokers. UEFA president Michel Platini had hoped to attend the draw for Euro 2016 in Paris Saturday, ahead of this summer’s ...

MUTTENZ, Switzerland (AP) — Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini won again in court Tuesday and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors. Once soccer’s most powerful men, former ...