ZURICH (AP) Before protege turned protagonist, Michel Platini was inseparable from Sepp Blatter, as if they had a telepathic partnership on a football field.
Long since estranged, their past alliance is now the focus of criminal investigators, and their FIFA fates in the short term are likely to be determined by the organization's ethics committee, which is expected to meet over the coming week.
The question for Blatter is why FIFA paid 2 million Swiss francs (about $2 million) to Platini in 2011 for work supposedly carried out at least nine years earlier.