Michael Platini, a France football legend and former Uefa president at present banned for ethics violations has been detained in connection with a criminal investigation into alleged corruption relating to Fifa’s decision to host the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. He denies all outside influence in the vote he made for Qatar, though focus will be turned on a lunch he attended in Paris just days before the controversial vote in 2010, with the Qatar Head of State and the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy who was lobbying for an important bilateral trade deals between the two nations. Qatar subsequently took over the Paris St-Germain team. There’s little prospect that this latest development will affect Qatar’s status as hosts, even if Platini is charged.
He was born 21 June 1955 9am Joeuf, France, and is a Sun and Mercury in Gemini opposition North Node in sporting Sagittarius, trine Neptune and sextile Pluto – so not short of ambition, influence or the ability to slide round obstacles. He’s also got an adventurous Uranus conjunct Jupiter in a highly-strung square to Neptune. Plus a gritty Saturn in Scorpio trine Mars (Moon) in Cancer.
He’s not looking too cheerful at the moment with tr Saturn coming up to oppose his Mars from the last day of this month into July which is usually a setback and enraging; and it repeats later in the year. But where he runs into real trouble is in 2021/22 with his Solar Arc Mercury conjunct Pluto which is depressing; and tr Pluto opposing his Uranus and square his Neptune which will be a considerable upheaval and fairly devastating and confusing.
Very intriguing. The whole World Cup in Qatar arrangement is surely riddled with submerged scandals. If you look at Fifa’s own chart, 21st May 1904, it will face some shake ups from Uranus in Taurus eventually, yet has already withstood a number of inauspicious transits during previous scandals in recent years. Such a shame really, sport should unite nations, and not be all about money, politics and shadowy power plays.