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Platini
Season 1 · Episode 6
Politics
0.032mAugust 30, 2026
With his soccer career over at just 32, Platini was named head coach of the French national team. Soon after, he entered the world of politics. In 2007, his election as president of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer, marked a first for a former soccer player. But the next step—toward FIFA—proved to be more complicated than he had imagined.