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Blatter to run for 5th term as FIFA president
Monday, September 08, 2014 | 7:41 AM
FIFA president Sepp Blatter
MANCHESTER, (AFP) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday that he will be a candidate for a fifth term in charge of world football in an election next year.
"Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate," Blatter said in a video speech to a football conference in Manchester.
Blatter has been FIFA's leader since 1998, but has faced growing criticism from European football chiefs in recent months.
The World Cup, a multi-billion dollar earner for FIFA, is also embroiled in controversy over the way the 2018 and 2022 tournaments were decided.
His path to a virtually automatic re-election was opened up after UEFA leader Michel Platini announced in August that he would not challenge Blatter.
The 78-year-old Swiss official said he would officially tell FIFA's executive committee at a meeting on September 23-24.
"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 told the Soccerex conference by video from Zurich.
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Monday, September 08, 2014 | 7:41 AM
FIFA president Sepp Blatter
MANCHESTER, (AFP) -- FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday that he will be a candidate for a fifth term in charge of world football in an election next year.
"Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate," Blatter said in a video speech to a football conference in Manchester.
Blatter has been FIFA's leader since 1998, but has faced growing criticism from European football chiefs in recent months.
The World Cup, a multi-billion dollar earner for FIFA, is also embroiled in controversy over the way the 2018 and 2022 tournaments were decided.
His path to a virtually automatic re-election was opened up after UEFA leader Michel Platini announced in August that he would not challenge Blatter.
The 78-year-old Swiss official said he would officially tell FIFA's executive committee at a meeting on September 23-24.
"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 told the Soccerex conference by video from Zurich.
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