10 of possibly most corrupt footballers of all time

#1 Michel Platini

Platini’s name has been tainted by all the scandals he’s been involved in as UEFA president

Platini as a player, was one of the most technically-gifted and talented players of all time, with the Frenchman having won a plethora of both club and individual honours. Platini used to hold the record for having won the most number of Ballon D’Ors with three, before Messi recently overtook the feat.

He won the European Championships in 1984 with the French national team and also a total of three league titles, a European Cup, a UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup as a player, before eventually heading on to become the President of UEFA, European football’s highest governing organisation.

It was here that allegations of corruption initially began to surface, with both Platini and then FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, placed under formal investigation by the FIFA’s independent ethics committee for so-called ‘disloyal payments.’ He would be found guilty and banned from any activity pertaining to football for six years.

He was also later found to be involved in the 2015 Greek football scandal. The final nail in the coffin would be his name appearing in the infamous Panama Papers leak of April 2016, with Platini, now having next to no chance to make any sort of re-entry into the sport that he gave so much for.