Investigators looking into the awarding of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar have placed the French football legend and former UEFA President, Michel Platini, under the microscope, and Belgium continues to rule the world in the new FIFA rankings.

During his pomp, Michel Platini found ways to sneak through the toughest of opponents, and the 63-year-old will need all of that guile and cunning to move through the current wall that stands in his way after the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police detained him on suspicion of corruption this week.

According to the French investigative entity, Mediapart, officials arrested the three-time Ballon d’Or winner in Nanterre, Paris, on Tuesday morning as part of the ongoing investigation into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, an inquiry that also involved the former Fifa President, Sepp Blatter.

Platini worked for Fifa between 1998 and 2002, and was the president of UEFA from 2007 until he stepped down after a Fifa Ethics Committee handed Platini {and Blatter} an eight-year ban from football over financial irregularities (later reduced to four years on appeal).