Platini in hospital but 'fine'

Uefa president Michel Platini has been taken to a hospital in Johannesburg after fainting in a restaurant.

Platini is in South Africa as a member of the Fifa executive committee and Fifa's World Cup organising committee.

He was in Johannesburg ahead of Sunday's final but had to be taken to hospital on Friday night for tests.

Uefa advisor William Gaillard understands that his condition is not serious, following initial reports that he had suffered a heart attack.

It is thought that Platini has had flu-like symptoms because of the cold weather in South Africa and underwent tests as a precaution.

"I am here in London but I talked to the assistant who was with him and it seems it is just fainting, linked with not really taking any food today because he has a cold and a bit of a fever,"Gaillard toldSky Sports News.

"All the preliminary exams they have done are negative. He is conscious, he is fine.

"I have been told not to worry. There is nothing serious."

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