Michel Platini has 20 trophies and medals from legendary career STOLEN in home invasion

The property of football legend Michel Platini was burgled early this morning with 20 of his prized trophies stolen. The former French captain - and star of Juventus and Saint Etienne - was woken by the burglar at around 4.30am.

He saw a “hooded individual dressed in black” in front of his bay window. When he went outside to his garden shed at his home near Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône department. he saw it had been broken into.

Around 20 of his trophies and medals from his glittering career were taken.

The Marseille prosecutor's office "confirmed the opening of an investigation into aggravated burglary committed at Michel Platini's home” to French media group RTL. The local gendarmerie brigade is handling the initial investigations.

Platini, 70, is a controversial former President of UEFA. Following his retirement as a player, Platini was the France national team coach from 1988 to 1992.

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