Michel Platini

**Michel François Platini** (born 21 June 1955) is a retired French footballer. He was the president of UEFA between 2007 and 2015. In 2015, he was banned from football due to ethics violations. He is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. He was the all-time top scorer for France between June 19, 1984 (when he overtook Just Fontaine's record) and October 17, 2007 (when Thierry Henry became France's top scorer). 

As a player, he played for Nancy-Lorraine, A.S. Saint-Étienne, and . He won the Ballon d'Or three times as a player (in 1983, 1984, 1985).

## Career statistics
### Club
### International
:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Platini goal.''

## Honours
### Player
**Nancy**
*Coupe de France: 1977–78
*Division 2: 1974–75

**Saint-Étienne**
*Division 1: 1980–81
*Coupe de France runner-up: 1980–81, 1981–82

**Juventus**
*Serie A: 1983–84, 1985–86
*Coppa Italia: 1982–83
*European Cup: 1984–85; runner-up: 1982–83
*European Cup Winners' Cup: 1983–84
*European Super Cup: 1984
*Intercontinental Cup: 1985

**France**
*UEFA European Championship: 1984
*Artemio Franchi Trophy: 1985
*FIFA World Cup third place: 1986
*1976 Pre-Olympic Zone European

**Individual**
*French Player of the Year: 1976, 1977
*Onze d'Argent: 1977
*Onze de Onze: 1977, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
*FIFA XI: 1979
*FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1982, 1986
*Capocannoniere (Serie A Top Scorer): 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85
*Ballon d'Or: 1983, 1984, 1985
*Onze d'Or: 1983, 1984, 1985
*Guerin d'Oro: 1983–84
*UEFA European Championship Player of the Tournament: 1984
*UEFA European Championship Top Scorer: 1984
*World Soccer Player of the Year: 1984, 1985
*Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player of the Match Award: 1985
*FIFA World Cup All-Time Team: 1994
*Super Onze d'Or: 1995
*Planète Foot's 50 Best Player of All Time: 1996
*Venerdì's 100 Magnificent: 1997
*World Team of the 20th Century: 1998
*Placar's 100 Players of the Century: 1999 (#8)
*Guerin' Sportivo's 50 Greatest Players of the Century by Adalberto Bortolotti: 1999 (#9)
*France Football Player of the Century: 1999 (#5)
*World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: 1999 (#5)
*FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2002
*FIFA 100: 2004
*UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll: 2004 (#9)
*Placar's 100 World Cup Stars: 2005 (#19)
*AFS Top-100 Players of All-Time: 2007 (#13)
*English Football Hall of Fame: 2008 (voted All-Time Greatest European Footballer. He is only the second person outside the English game to be honoured by the Museum.)
*Premio internazionale Giacinto Facchetti: 2011
*Italian Football Hall of Fame: 2011
*World Hall of Fame of Soccer: 2011
*Globe Soccer Awards Player Career Award: 2012
*Juventus Greatest XI of All Time: 2017
*Ballon d'Or Dream Team (Bronze): 2020
* IFFHS All-time Men's B Dream Team: 2021
* IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team: 2021
*Artemio Franchi Prize
*IFFHS Legends
*Voetball International's World Stars by Raf Willems

### Manager
**Individual**
*El País European Coach of the Year: 1991
*World Soccer Manager of the Year: 1991
*Officier of the Légion d'honneur: 1998

## Bibliography
*Michel Platini, "Ma vie comme un match", 1987

## References and notes
## More reading
*Tournon Philippe, *Platini, le football en fête*, Paris, Alta Sport, 1977
*Collectif, ''Michel Platini : l'album photos'', Paris, PAC, December 1982

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*Michel Platini – Goals in International Matches – www.rsssf.com – by José Luis Pierrend, RSSSF.
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*Platini Calls for Bigger World Cup