Michel François Platini (born 21 June 1955) is a football administrator, who served as the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) from 2007 until 2015, after which he was banned for 8 years following an ethics investigation by the FIFA ethics committee on 21 December 2015, and formerly a French football player and manager. However, his continuing status as president of UEFA is in doubt, following an eight-year ban imposed by FIFA in December 2015 for conflict of interest.