UEFA: "We Europeans want a strong FIFA -- a FIFA that is respectable and respected" (Michel Platini)

"As you know, my re-election also means that I continue as FIFA vice-president for another four years. We Europeans want a strong FIFA -- a FIFA that is respectable and respected -- since FIFA is and always will be football's supreme authority, the sport's ultimate governing body," stated Michel Platini at the podium of the UEFA Congress in Vienna (AUT) on 24/03/2015.

Michel Platini also requested the representatives of other confederations to not to believe those who assure them that Europe wants to rule the world -- "those who want to divide and rule" -- remarks which appeared to be aimed at, though without naming specifically, FIFA president Joseph Blatter, present in the first row of the Reed Exhibitions Messe in Vienna (AUT), on 24/03/2015.

"Not the captain of a ship in a storm that clings to the bar at all costs"

• "I simply consider myself your teammate. Or at best your captain. Not the captain of a ship in a storm that clings to the bar at all costs. No. Just the captain of a winning team..." said Michel Platini during his speech before the representatives of the 54 member…