Michel Platini last night refused to rule out standing for FIFA president in four years' time and admitted that Europe could play the decisive role in the election contest between Sepp Blatter and Mohamed Bin Hammam in June
Michel Platini last night refused to rule out standing for FIFA president in four years' time and admitted that Europe could play the decisive role in the election contest between Sepp Blatter and Mohamed Bin Hammam in June.
Platini was re-elected unopposed as UEFA president for four more years at the European body's Congress in Paris - and both Blatter and Bin Hammam were in the French capital to lobby for votes.
Blatter significantly promised to step down in 2015 if he is re-elected ufffd an implicit message to the 53 European countries that if they back him he will make way for Platini in four years' time.
Asked whether he would consider standing for the FIFA presidency in 2015, Platini did not rule it out.
"Let's meet again in three years and then I will tell you," he said.
Platini is a former advisor to the FIFA president and worked with Bin Hammam on Blatter's campaign for his first election in 1998, but he insisted his position at the head of European football meant to had to consult others in UEFA before committing himself.
