FIFA: If Michel Platini can stand, "a lot of the candidates would withdraw" (Sheikh Ahmad, Kuwait)

"I was a supporter for Michel (Platini), I still am a supporter for Michel. I fully know that he’s innocent but I don’t know the system that will happen. He paid all the tax for this (the alleged payment) and is not hiding something, but the (FIFA) mechanism is creating a problem," said Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah (Kuwait), a member of the FIFA Executive Committee, on 28/10/2015.

The president of UEFA and a candidate for the presidency of FIFA, Michel Platini was suspended from any activity in football for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee on 08/10/2015. This suspension stems from a payment of 2m Swiss francs (about €1.55m at the time of payment) in February 2011, presumably for work done by Platini for FIFA between January 1999 and June 2001. This payment is being investigated by the Swiss Attorney General.

"If he has the right to run we will support him. "From the beginning the will was with Michel as the successor of the house," said Sheikh Ahmad, who is also president of the Kuwaiti Football Federation Kuwait, to the insidethegames.biz website.

If the candidacy of Michel…