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 ...

Former Juventus winger Massimo Mauro admits Kenan Yildiz can follow in Alessandro Del Piero’s footsteps but still has ‘a long way to go’ to reach Michel Platini.Juventus star Yildiz has ...

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 decision to take the World Cup to Qatar has upturned a small nation, battered the reputation of global soccer’s governing body and altered the fabric of the sport. By Tariq Panja and Rory Smith ...

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 ...

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 ...