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UEFA backs its president Michel Platini
09 October 2015
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The UEFA Executive Committee on Thursday has decided to stand behind UEFA President Michel Platini in the wake of his 90-day ban by the FIFA Ethics Committee and opted not to appoint an acting president.
"The UEFA Executive Committee saw no need, at this moment in time, to invoke Article 29(5) of the UEFA Statutes, pursuant to which the highest-ranking Vice-President of UEFA may step in to assume the powers and duties of the President in his absence," UEFA said in a statement on Thursday.
