FIFA President Infantino sad ex-boss Platini remains banned (The Associated Press)

Gianni Infantino expressed sadness Monday that Michel Platini failed to overturn his ban, despite the new FIFA president gaining soccer's top job after charges of financial wrongdoing knocked his former boss out of the race. Platini saw the FIFA presidency as his destiny, but the UEFA leader was prevented from running in February's election when a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) from the global governing body was exposed.. Instead, Infantino was plucked from the relative of obscurity of the UEFA general secretary job to become Europe's candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter.