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PLATINI TO PRESENT HIS EURO VISION

UEFA’s newly elected president, Michel Platini, has called an extraordinary meeting of his executive committee next week to discuss fundamental changes in the way European football's governing body is run.

A UEFA statement said the extraordinary meeting would involve "proposed amendments to the UEFA statutes" which are reported to be likely to include the removal of the chief executive’s role from the organisation's statutes, to be replaced by a new general secretary's position occupied by former Scottish Football Association secretary David Taylor.

Any alterations approved by the committee will have to be endorsed by UEFA's congress at another extraordinary meeting due to take place on May 28.

The committee will also be asked to examine plans to expand the number of its members from 13 to 15 and reorganise UEFA's committees to give more power to elected members and less to the organisation's administrators.