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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9843

19 February 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/sport
UEFA President Michel Platini wants sports to be an exception and says football is not purely economic activity

Brussels, 18/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Football is a great teacher of friendship and diversity. “If we want to remain so, everything will have to change, and radically change certain parts and some rules,” UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) President Michel Platini told the European Parliament on Wednesday 18 February in his vigorous argument for making sport an exception and in heavily criticising the horse trading and economic approach to football. Football, he said, was...

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