Former UEFA president Michel Platini has slammed the use of VAR technology, the introduction of which he has always opposed, as a total nightmare, in an interview on Italian television.

"It would take half an hour to explain why it doesn't solve problems," said Platini.

"It shifts them. I'm against VAR. I think it's a load of crap and unfortunately we will not go back."

Four years after Platini's ban from all football-related activities for financial wrongdoing, the former UEFA boss is free to work in the sport again on Tuesday.

"At 64, I have the opportunity for one last adventure, but I have no room for error and I have to think about it," he said.

Meanwhile, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin on Sunday made light of his predecessor's return to football, saying the Frenchman could take any role except that of a player.

Ceferin was asked about Platini at Tirana where he was watching France play Albania in their Euro 2020 qualifier.

"Michel Platini's ban is over. So he can be part in any role in football except as a football player, I think he is a bit old," Ceferin said of the 64-year-old.

Platini is on record this week as tantalizingly saying there would be no rush as elections for top roles at FIFA and UEFA are "some years ahead."

Platini told Swiss television channel RTS in September that he "will be back."

The former France captain was banned in 2015 for receiving a payment of two million Swiss francs (two million U.S. dollars) from ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, who was himself suspended for six years.

"I will be back. I don't know where, I don't know how. I can't stay on the suspension, even if it's a suspension made by idiots," Platini said.

"I was a victim of a form of a plot, yes, totally, between those at FIFA and those at the Swiss public ministry. There was an agreement between FIFA and them to sack me. I'm not going to say it was a plot by the Swiss state."

(Cover photo: Former UEFA chief Michel Platini at a UEFA press conference after the draw for the UEFA Europa League football group stage 2015/16 in Monaco, August 28, 2015. /VCG Photo)

(With input from AFP)