Sepp Blatter to stand for fifth term
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Sepp Blatter has confirmed he will stand for a fifth term as Fifa
president next year.
Blatter has been widely expected to stand again despite saying
in 2011 this would be his last term and now he has confirmed
he will do so. It follows Uefa president Michel Platini
announcing last month that he would not stand for the Fifa
post.
Blatter said he would officially inform the Fifa executive
committee of his plans at the next meeting on 25 and 26
September.
The 78-year-old said in a video interview played at the
Soccerex conference in Manchester: “I will inform the
executive committee. It’s a question of respect also to say then
to the football family, ‘Yes I will be ready. I will be a
candidate.’”
Blatter said the backing of the majority of the national
associations at the Fifa Congress in São Paulo in June had
convinced him to keep going.
He added: “You see a mission is never finished. And my
mission is not finished.
“Then I got through the last Congress in São Paulo not only
the impression but the support of the majority, a huge majority
of national associations asking ‘Please go on, be our president
also in future’.”
The election will take place at the Fifa Congress next May. The
only other declared candidate is the former Fifa deputy
secretary general Jerome Champagne, although the candidacy
deadline is not until January next year.
Before the World Cup started in Brazil in June, five of Fifa’s six
confederations - the exception being Uefa - gave Blatter their
support to continue as president and it is almost inconceivable
that he will not be re-elected when voting takes place at the
Fifa Congress in Zurich next June.
president next year.
Blatter has been widely expected to stand again despite saying
in 2011 this would be his last term and now he has confirmed
he will do so. It follows Uefa president Michel Platini
announcing last month that he would not stand for the Fifa
post.
Blatter said he would officially inform the Fifa executive
committee of his plans at the next meeting on 25 and 26
September.
The 78-year-old said in a video interview played at the
Soccerex conference in Manchester: “I will inform the
executive committee. It’s a question of respect also to say then
to the football family, ‘Yes I will be ready. I will be a
candidate.’”
Blatter said the backing of the majority of the national
associations at the Fifa Congress in São Paulo in June had
convinced him to keep going.
He added: “You see a mission is never finished. And my
mission is not finished.
“Then I got through the last Congress in São Paulo not only
the impression but the support of the majority, a huge majority
of national associations asking ‘Please go on, be our president
also in future’.”
The election will take place at the Fifa Congress next May. The
only other declared candidate is the former Fifa deputy
secretary general Jerome Champagne, although the candidacy
deadline is not until January next year.
Before the World Cup started in Brazil in June, five of Fifa’s six
confederations - the exception being Uefa - gave Blatter their
support to continue as president and it is almost inconceivable
that he will not be re-elected when voting takes place at the
Fifa Congress in Zurich next June.
Comments
i see some amount of surge in indian football importance from blatter but its the people who follow and him calling indian football is reactive to fans than AIFF doing anything.
so is it a good thing or a bad thing to indian football if he gets reelected? debate on!!
his entire "focus" on emerging markets is gone for a toss.
guess all d setting has been done...