Platini insists he's still the man

Suspended by FIFA as the presidential election contest kicks off, Michel Platini insists he is still the best candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter.

"I am, in all humility, the most able to run world football," the former France great said in an interview published in Thursday editions of British and Swiss newspapers.

"People want to prevent me running because they know that I have every chance of winning," the UEFA president said, citing his career in soccer as "a journey I have achieved with honesty".