VIENNA - UEFA president Michel Platini is confident Spain will take their place at Euro 2008 despite FIFA's threats of a possible international ban hanging over them.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter declared last month that government interference in the administration of football in Spain could result in the national team and Primera Liga clubs being excluded from international competition.
The Spanish government have ordered the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and other non-Olympic federations to hold presidential elections before the Beijing Games.
The RFEF lost their appeal to the courts against the government's ruling, but the federation then insisted it would not obey the mandate following a vote on the subject by the RFEF's general assembly earlier this month.
FIFA will discuss the situation at a committee meeting on Friday, but Platini believes Spain will still be gracing this summer's European Championships in Austria and Switzerland.
"I can give two different answers on this issue," Platini told a news conference. "Firstly, it's FIFA's problem, it's not UEFA's concern. It has to do with the FIFA statutes.
"FIFA will have to take a decision in due course and it will be discussed at the next executive committee meeting in Zurich later this week.
"But I will also say how glad we are to have Spain, a great footballing nation, and I'm convinced that Spain will play at Euro 2008 and everything will be sorted."
Platini was speaking ahead of a two-day workshop in Vienna which involved representatives of the 16 countries that have qualified for Euro 2008.
