Sepp Blatter, who for nearly two decades ruled as the most powerful administrator in world football, insisted on Thursday that Michel Platini, one of his most illustrious advisors, justified his massive fees.
Blatter, the boss of Fifa between 1998 and 2015, told a Swiss court that he could not understand why he was on trial for fraud with Platini, who skippered the France team during the mid 1980s.
