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Spanish FA Chief Angel Maria Villar to Fill in For Michel Platini at Euro
Angel Maria Villar will award the Euro 2016 trophy to the tournament winners in the absence of Michel Platini, who resigned as UEFA president
Angel Maria Villar is the first vice-president of UEFA.© AFP
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Angel Maria Villar, Spanish FA chief, will award Euro trophy to winners
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The move follows the resignation of UEFA president Platini
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Villar is the first vice-president of UEFA
Basel:
Spanish football federation president Angel Maria Villar will award the Euro 2016 trophy to the tournament winners in the absence of Michel Platini, UEFA announced Wednesday.
The move follows the resignation of UEFA president Platini after a sports tribunal rejected his final appeal against his ban from football over a suspect $2.0 million payment he received from FIFA.
Platini would normally have awarded the trophy in Paris on July 10.
However, as "first vice-president" of UEFA, Villar will now step in.
"As our first vice-president, he (Villar) is the person who will fulfill this role," UEFA's interim general secretary Theodore Theodoridis said at an Executive Committe meeting in Basel.
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