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Michel Platini
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French football player, manager and executive (born 1955)
Michel Platini is a French football legend who had a successful career as a player and later worked as a manager and executive in the sport. He matters because he was one of Europe's greatest footballers and went on to hold influential positions in football administration, including leading UEFA, European football's governing body.
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- human
- Given name
- François
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Jœuf
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Position held
- president
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- French
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 1992
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- France men's national association football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- France
- Mass
- 74
- Image
- Michel Platini 2010 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 179
- Number of children
- 2
- Significant event
- Panama Papers
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- Michel Platini
- date of birth
- 1955-06-21
- birth name
- Michel François Platini
- name in native language
- Michel Platini
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 1
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- different from
- Michel Platini Mesquita
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- coach of sports team
- France men's national association football team
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Michel François Platini ( French pronunciation: [miʃɛl fʁɑ̃swa platini]; born 21 June 1955) is a French football administrator and former player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time, Platini won the Ballon d'Or three times in a row, in 1983, 1984 and 1985, and came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. In recognition of his achievements, he was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1985 and became an Officer in 1998. As the president of UEFA in 2015 he was banned from involvement in football under FIFA's organisation, over ethics violations. The ban lasted until 2023.
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