UEFA President Michel Platini "had a dig" at FIFA on
Wednesday, saying that "it had failed to show zero tolerance" toward
discrimination at the World Cup, according to Brian Homewood of REUTERS. As he opened an
anti-discrimination conference in Rome, Platini said, "It's all well and good to
create committees and task forces but you will get nowhere without
infrastructure and ... rules. UEFA
put up a system that is a complex monitoring system of all high-risk
matches so that, unlike the World Cup in Brazil, zero tolerance is
really put into practice. Football is a mirror of society, it reflects its qualities but magnifies its flaws" (REUTERS, 9/10). The AP reported Platini
has promised a ruling from the organization's disciplinary body over an alleged racist comment by the Italian football federation's new leader.
Carlo Tavecchio, a long-standing executive in Italian football, was elected president last month despite causing a stir over a reference to bananas when discussing the presence of foreign players in Italy.
While the Italian federation's internal prosecutor dropped his inquiry over the comment, UEFA is expected to issue a ruling in the coming days.
"I do not want to revisit what (Tavecchio) said," Platini said in his opening remarks Wednesday at UEFA's Respect and Diversity conference. "But UEFA has decided to open an inquiry and the disciplinary body will hand down a decision based on its (anti-racism) rules."
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"promised a ruling from the organization's disciplinary body over an alleged racist comment by the Italian football federation's new leader." Italian Football Federation (FIGC) President Carlo Tavecchio, a long-standing exec in Italian football, was elected president last month "despite causing a stir over a reference to bananas when discussing the presence of foreign players in Italy." Platini: "I do not want to revisit what (Tavecchio) said. But UEFA has decided to open an inquiry and the disciplinary body will hand down a decision based on its (anti-racism) rules" (
AP, 9/10).
