Michel Platini, the French football legend and three-time Ballon d'Or winner, has expressed his views in a lengthy interview with the magazine "L'Équipe". He criticizes modern football for focusing on the number of goals scored rather than quality and technical detail.
For Platini, it's shocking that after the 9-goal match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich is hailed as the 'Match of the Century'. He emphasizes that a beautiful tackle and a superb save are no less impressive than scoring a goal.
Platini also adds: 'The goalkeepers have become like sieves, and the defenders even worse. How can they concede 9 goals and half of them describe it as the Match of the Century?'
He further states that he is not always right and that there are more than two hundred million people who talk about football and express their feelings. He himself is just one among them.
