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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is surrounded by the media as he leaves the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Blatter said on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, that picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago. (Alessandro Crinari/Keystone via AP, File) **FILE**

Sepp Blatter says picking Qatar as World Cup host was a ‘mistake’

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is surrounded by the media as he leaves the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini have arrived at a Swiss criminal court for their 11-day trial on charges of defrauding FIFA, the world governing body of soccer. (Alessandro Crinari/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

Blatter, Platini reiterate innocence in testimony to court

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press

FIFA President Sepp Blatter, left, and UEFA President Michel Platini are engaged in conversation during the 65th FIFA Congress held at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, on Friday, May 29, 2015. Swiss prosecutors have charged former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini with fraud and other offenses. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

Former FIFA officials Blatter, Platini indicted for fraud in Switzerland

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Blatter, Platini now suspected of fraud in 5-year FIFA case

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Argentine soccer superstar Diego Armando Maradona cheers after the Napoli team clinched its first Italian major league title in Naples, Italy, on May 10, 1987. Diego Maradona has died. The Argentine soccer great was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity. He was 60. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File )

Platini to AP: Maradona was the ‘greatest football lover’

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Former UEFA president Michel Platini appears in front of the building of the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, in Bern, Switzerland Monday, 31 Aug. 2020. Michel Platini and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter each face interrogation from the Swiss public prosecutor as part of the proceedings opened in 2015 over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs. (Anthony Anex/Keystone via AP)

Platini quizzed in Swiss investigation of $2M FIFA payment

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 29, 2016 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini leaves the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, surrounded by media after a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland. Former UEFA president Michel Platini is formally under investigation in Switzerland for a $2 million payment he got from FIFA in 2011. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

Michel Platini now a formal suspect in Swiss case

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 1984 file photo, French soccer team coach Michel Hidalgo raises the 1984 European Championship cup as he is carried across the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris. The French Football Federation said on its website that Hidalgo died on Thursday March 26, 2020. He was 87. (AP Photo, FILE)

Michel Hidalgo, who coached France to Euro 1984 title, dies

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, June 19, 2019, Michel Platini leaves the French police anti-corruption and financial crimes office in Nanterre, outside Paris. Platini has lost his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights to overturn a four-year ban from soccer for financial wrongdoing taking a dollars 2 million payment from FIFA, according to a unanimous ruling published Thursday March 5, 2020, by the court in Strasbourg, France. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori, FILE)

Platini loses FIFA ban appeal at European human rights court

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Soccer union FIFPro distances itself from link to Platini

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FIFA files $2M Swiss courts claim against Blatter, Platini

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FIFA committee wants to recover cash from Michel Platini

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Lawyer says Platini is seeking payment from UEFA in court

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 29, 2016 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini leaves the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, after a hearing in Lausanne, Switzerland. Michel Platini is free to work in soccer again on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 morning after his four-year ban by FIFA expires overnight. The former UEFA president told The Associated Press on Monday unsure he is where and when he will return. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, file)

Platini plans comeback, legal fight after 4-year FIFA ban

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Former Brazilian soccer player Cafu, center, poses for a photo with Hassan Al Thawadi, left, Chairman of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, and Nasser Al-Khater, right, deputy-secretary general of the Qatar 2022 organizing committee, during a event where Cafu was presented as an Ambassador for the World Cup 2022, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Qatar 2022 organizers say French police yet to contact them

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Michel Platini and his lawyer William Bourdon, right, answer reporters after Platini has been freed, outside the French police anti-corruption and financial crimes office in Nanterre, outside Paris, early Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Former UEFA president Michel Platini proclaimed his innocence during police questioning Tuesday following his arrest as part of a corruption probe into the vote that gave the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori)

Platini: “It hurts,” soccer star says of police questioning

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN and JOHN LEICESTER and PATRICK HERMANSEN - Associated Press

In this Feb.22, 2014 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini arrives at a press conference, one day prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying draw in Nice, southeastern France. Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested Tuesday June 18, 2019 over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File) **FILE**

France detains soccer great Michel Platini in 2022 World Cup probe

By John Leicester and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Police officers guard the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police headquarters in Nanterre, outside Paris,Tuesday, June 18, 2019. Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to a corruption probe into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a judicial official said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The Latest: Blatter says Paris meeting swayed vote for Qatar

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FILE - In this file photo dated June 17, 1986, Michel Platini, left, of France dribbles past Italian forward Alessandro Altobelli in their World Cup eight finals in Mexico City's Azteca Stadium. France won 2-0 to advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament and Italy was eliminated. Affectionately nicknamed “Le Roi” (The King), Michel Platini bestrode the soccer field with inimitable elegance as the world’s best player of the early 1980s, but his lofty reputation seems to have been tainted. (AP Photo, FILE)

Soccer great now mired in corruption scandals

By BY STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb.22, 2014 file photo, UEFA President Michel Platini arrives at a press conference, one day prior to the UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying draw in Nice, southeastern France. Convinced he was the victim of a plot, former UEFA president Michel Platini has filed a lawsuit in France in a bid to prove that former FIFA officials conspired to get him banned from soccer. Platini’s communications team told The Associated Press on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 that the former France great has filed the suit. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Michel Platini files lawsuit in France in FIFA case

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press