Despite his six-year ban from football, Michel Platini will be welcome at Euro 2016.
Michel Platini will be a guest of organizers and the French Football Federation at Euro 2016, according to tournament president Jacques Lambert.
Former UEFA president Platini is currently serving a reduced six-year ban from all soccer-related activity over a "disloyal payment" made by then-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter in 2011.
Platini appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but conceded he was "skeptical" about his chances of overturning the ban.
But Lambert insists Platini, who has described Euro 2016 as his "child," will be given a warm welcome at the tournament, which gets underway in June.