UEFA expects $917M profit from European Championship (The Associated Press)

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) -- Expanding the European Championship has paid off for UEFA, which expects to make a record profit of 830 million euros ($917 million). Four years ago, UEFA's profit was 593.7 million euros (then $724 million) from its most lucrative competition, according to its financial accounts for that year. UEFA leaders, including Theodoridis and senior vice president Angel Maria Villar, praised Michel Platini, the European football body's outgoing president who will serve a FIFA ban from official duty until 2019.