Platini might go fishing but not while FIFA still beckons


  • Football
  • Thursday, 26 Mar 2015

UEFA President Michel Platini delivers his speech during the opening session of the 39th Ordinary UEFA Congress in Vienna March 24, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

VIENNA (Reuters) - It is not easy imagining Michel Platini with his rod and line fishing by a riverbank or playing rugby but the soon-to-be 60-year-old UEFA chief is keeping his options open.

Nobody close to Platini, acclaimed as the president of European soccer's governing body for a third term at Tuesday's Congress, expects either of those things to happen of course.

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