Born: 55-06-21            Honours won:Cup Winners´Cup,
Clubs: Nancy,St. Etienne   European Super Cup champion,
       and Juventus.        World Cup champion, European
                            champion with France -84.... 
 

Michel Platini was a part of the french nationalteam that qualified for the World Cup in 1978. Back then he was young and he didn´t have any experience of earlier World Cups. In the first game against Italy ( 1-2 ) he was on the bench, but in the next game he got the chance to play and he even scored a goal. Argentina won the game anyway and it didn´t help that France won the last game against Hungary, the tournament was over for Platini and his friends.
After the World Cup Platini grew really big in France and in the World Cup -82, Platini was the big star. He lead the french team all the way to a semi-final, but they lost and finished fourth.
After Platini´s success in the World Cup, Juventus bought him from his french club St. Etienne.The move to Italy became a new big success for Platini. He was topscorer in Serie A for three years in a row and he lead Juve to victories in Serie A, Cup Winners´Cup and the italian Super Cup.
Platini was a tecnical genius and he also had another great ability, he made the other players in the team play better.
The biggest moment in Platini´s career was the European Championships in France 1984. In the five games Platini made nine goals and France won the tournament.
Platini also scored the game-winning goal in the tragical European Cup final on the Heyzel Stadium against Liverpool. After the incident Platini lost his passion to football and he retired in 1987.
Platini has also coached the nationalteam, but after the failure in the European Championships in Sweden 1992, when the french team had to go home after just the three games in the group, his career as a coach was over.
Nowadays, Platini has just finished his work with the World Cup in France but he says that he will continue working with football in some way.