Thursday, 28 August 2014

Soccer-Platini to press for more European World Cup places

By Mike Collett MONACO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Michel Platini, who will almost certainly be re-elected as UEFA president next year after saying he had no plans to run for the FIFA presidency, said on Thursday he wants Europe to have 15 places at the World Cup again. Platini, 59, used his traditional early season media conference to announce he intended to urge FIFA to increase Europe's representation from 13 teams back to 15 for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia. "We had 15 European teams in 1998

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