Football legend Michel Platini disturbed a thief in his villa in the south of France on Friday, AFP told a source near the police investigation.

Platinum70 years old, heard a noise in the garden of property at Cassis early in the morning and came face to face with a man in a black mask who fled with some trophies and medals, the source said.

Platinum played 72 times for France And he won the Ballon D’Or Prize for the best player in the world for three years from 1983 to 1985.

He took France to the semifinals of the 1982 and 1986 World Cup.

He was president of UEFA from 2007 to 2016 and later hugged in a financial scandal involving FIFA’s then president, Sepp Blatter, but was released in March this year.