Platini blasts 'nonsense' FIFA Club World Cup

Michel Platini claims there is little interest in the FIFA Club World Cup and is fuelled by greed and money

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00:00I think that FIFA wants to play a tournament with more money,

00:03a tournament, and they have the right to play it.

00:07I think, as a football player, it's a bit complicated

00:10to pass their holidays and play a ballon after a difficult year.

00:14The club is happy because they earn a lot of money,

00:17so we see that success.

00:20But sportively, there is no interest.

00:24We don't have any interest because it's the champion of the world of clubs

00:28and the champion of the world of confederations.

00:30There is a scale.

00:32Italy, Europe, world.

00:35You can't put the fourth or the semi-finalists

00:40or the eighth-finalists and be the champion of the world.

00:42It doesn't have any meaning.

00:44But it's like that.

00:46I think that the FIFA wants to always make more money,

00:48like the UEFA, like the Italian Federation,

00:51and all those who are in politics want to always make much more money.

00:56It's legitimate, complicated, not easy,

01:01but it can be right or not.

01:03It's complicated because there is a pressure

01:06of many, many, many, many companies

01:09who are in debt and want to always have a little bit more money.