Beckenbauer proposes Platini for UEFA chief

Sun, 04 Mar 2001 | Source: AP

MUNICH, Germany (AP): Franz Beckenbauer, ruling himself out for the top job in European soccer, said on Friday that former French star Michel Platini would be a good candidate for the UEFA presidency.

"He has great chances to be elected. He was a player, coach, then copresident of the World Cup organizing committee in France," Beckenbauer told the German sports news agency SID.

UEFA, the European soccer governing body, is now headed by Lennart Johansson of Sweden. Elections are due next year.

Beckenbauer, the former German star, is now a vice president of the German soccer federation (DFB), chairman of Bayern Munich and president of the organizing committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

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