The Frenchman Michel Platini, ex-president of the UEFA disqualified during four years, returns to be the news by his incendiary declarations. This Friday unveiled "a small scam" that the organizing committee of the 1998 World Cup did so that the host, France, and the favorite, Brazil, did not cross until the final.
"We played at home and we had to take advantage of it, we were not pricked for six years organizing the World Cup so that it would be nothing." They made little scams Do you think the others did not do similar things in the other World Cups? "Platini confessed in the advance of an interview broadcast today on the radio "France Bleu".
At that time, Platini, a legend of French football, was co-president of the French organization committee of the World Cup.
Although both France and Brazil should initially fall into random groups, the committee made the two countries have a trajectory in which they would only meet in the final if they finished leaders of their respective groups.
The two countries complied with the script drawn by Platini and played the decisive match on July 12, 1998 at the Saint-Denis Stadium in France, where host France won their first World Cup by beating Brazil (3-0).