Uefa head Platini to stay in Fifa race despite new inquiry

Paris

UEFA president Michel Platini has insisted he will stay in the race for the Fifa presidency despite being named in a Swiss criminal investigation into the world football body.

The French football legend told AFP on Tuesday he had done "nothing wrong" and defended a US$2 million payment approved by Fifa president Sepp Blatter.

Mr Platini, who had been favourite to win an election for the Fifa president in February, spoke out amid reports that he and Mr Blatter will soon be put under investigation by Fifa's independent ethics committee.

"I am still determined to present myself as a candidate for t…