PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS UEFA President Michel Platini gives a press conference with Real Madrid president Florentino Perez (not pictured) at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, on October 21, 2009. Spain and Portugal are bidding jointly to host the 2018 World Cup 2018. FIFA will make its final decision on the 2018 host in December 2010. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET

Former French soccer star Michel Platini, right, speaks while Polish-born Senegal coach Henryk Kasperczak, left, looks on during a general assembly of the Polish Soccer Federation in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Oct. 27, 2006. Platini, a three-time European player of the year, is running for UEFA president against incumbent Lennart Johansson of Sweden. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

** FILE ** Former France soccer captain Michel Platini, is seen in this June 23, 2006 file photo. Incumbent UEFA President Lennart Johansson is counting on his 16-year track record in office to fend off a challenge from former France soccer star Michel Platini in the race for European soccer's top job. (AP Photo/ Michael Sohn)

UEFA executive Lars-Christen Olsson stands alongside the Champions League Cup during the quarter-final draw at the Paris cityhall, Friday March 10, 2006. Tournament favorite FC Barcelona was drawn against Benfica on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, while Italian soccer champion Juventus meets Arsenal. Six-time winner AC Milan faces French league leader Lyon, and the other quarterfinal pitted Spain's Villarreal against Inter Milan or Ajax Amsterdam. The final will take place on May 17, 2006 at the Stade de France outside Paris.(AP Photo/Michel Euler)

UEFA President Lennart Johansson poses with the new trophy commissioned for the European Football Championship, during the unveiling ceremony at the Congress Center in Montreux, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, on the eve of the EURO 2008 qualifying draw. The new trophy is 18 centimetres higher and two kilos heavier than the original designed in 1960. It is engraved with the names of the European champions on the back and will be awarded for the first time at the EURO 2008 final on June 29, 2008 in Vienna. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Maarten Fontein, left, director general of four-time winner AFC Ajax, poses with a special plaque he received from the hands of UEFA president Lennart Johansson, right, during an awards presentation to representatives of the 21 clubs who have won the European Champions Clubs Cup/UEFA Champions League so far, at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, Friday, Dec.16, 2005. The awards ceremony is part of the celebration of the 50 years of the European Club soccer competition. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Martial Trezzini)

UEFA President Lennart Johansson at a Marrakech hotel, Morocco, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2005, prior to the 55th FIFA Congress that starts Sunday. The two-day FIFA Congress will examine issues such as multi ownership of clubs, the need for a minimum number of homegrown players, betting and corruption. (AP Photo/Jalil Bounhar)

** FILE ** UEFA executive committee member and French soccer legend Michel Platini draws British team Manchester United in the group D for the UEFA soccer Champions League, in Monaco, in this, Aug. 26, 2004 file photo. Platini announced Tuesday March 15, 2005 that he will seek the UEFA presidency to replace Lennart Johansson .(AP Photo/Bruno Bebert)

UEFA President Lennart Johansson looks on during a short signing ceremony closing a two-day Executive Committee meeting, at the UEFA Headquarter, in Nyon, Switzerland, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004. The Executive Committee showed its willingness to study the use of new technology such TV in refeeing matters. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Fabrice Coffrini)

Franz Beckenbauer, rechts, Praesident des FIFA WM 2006 OKs, unterhaelt sich am 30. Sept. 2004 in Stuttgart mit dem ehemaligen franzoesischen Fussball-Nationalspieler Michel Platini, links. Im Hintergrund UEFA-Praesident Lennart Johansson. Beckenbauer sagte der

** FILE ** Former French soccer star Michel Platini, left, welcomes UEFA President Lennart Johansson prior to the presentation of the FIFA World Cup 2006 Official Poster in Stuttgart, southwestern Germany in this Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004 file photo. Johansson is counting on his 16-year track record in office to fend off a challenge from former France soccer star Michel Platini in the race for European soccer's top job. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

Lennart Johansson, President of the European soccer body UEFA, holds a press conference at the Dragao stadium in Porto, Portugal, Friday June 11, 2004, to present the Euro 2004 soccer championship. The competition starts on Saturday, with the opening Group A match between Portugal and Greece in Porto. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

** FILE ** UEFA President Lennart Johansson meets the media after a UEFA Executive Committee meeting in this Friday Nov. 8, 2002 file photo in Copenhagen. Johansson is counting on his 16-year track record in office to fend off a challenge from former France soccer star Michel Platini in the race for European soccer's top job.. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Jens Noergaard Larsen) ** DENMARK OUT **

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Liverpool's coach French Gerard Houllier holds the UEFA Cup trophy after his team won the final against Deportivo Alaves at the Dortmund Westfalenstadion 16 May 2001. Liverpool won 5 - 4 in extra-time.

The yet unnamed mascotte for the Euro 2000 European UEFA soccer tournament poses in front of the event's logo, Saturday 06 February 1999 in Zeist, during it's official presentation. The mascotte shows as well elements of a lion as of a naughty devil.

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, center, after the final of the European Soccer Championships. The Netherlands took the cup, beating Russia 2-0 in Munich, West Germany, Saturday June 25, 1988. Left stands UEFA secretary General Jacques Georges, who waits to give the cup to Gullit. (AP Photo/Stf)