Fifa presidential election – Get out of Blatter’s dictatorship – Süddeutsche.de

• Luis Figo has withdrawn his candidacy for the election of the FIFA President.
• The Portuguese will thus probably increase the chances of the remaining Blatter challenger Prince Ali Hussein.
• Figo carries harsh criticism of the Fifa structures. They are undemocratic. There had not been a single public debate

By Thomas Kistner

Totally demoralized in Blatter Empire:. Yesterday thrown two challenger in Michael van Praag and Luis Figo. Few months ago, they had claimed that there democratic practices in football’s world governing body Fifa, that is not the case, Figo now shares with contrite. Eight days before the FIFA Präsidentenkür Convention in Zurich rise two European challengers from a race of which has always been hopeless for them.

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choice for FIFA President A rival less for Blatter

Michael van Praag, one of the biggest critics of Fifa boss Sepp Blatter, pulls his candidacy for the presidential election of the World Association back. The Dutchman now wants Jordan Prince Ali bin Al Hussein support.

The last opponent Sepp Blatter is back Prince Ali bin Hussein in the ring. Even Jordan’s King offspring is on the ticket of the European Union Uefa road that has avowedly put an end to the skandalumtosten aegis of the incumbent to the target.

Figo criticized democratic deficit in the Fifa

But the prince will not even given an outside chance. How strong Blatter’s lobby is in that football world, he called his family and considered the enervated Ex-candidate Figo made public. In the congresses of the Continental Associations of Asia, Africa and the Americas in recent months you a minute speaking rights was as official Fifa candidates, been granted. What the sportsmanship of officials illustrated, can carry huge banner with the slogan fair play to the stadium before the World Cup games.

Portugal Football icon Figo described in his resignation address the climate within the FIFA family. “I was not available for what is called an election of the FIFA President. In recent months I have incidents around the world observed that anyone who wants a free, democratic and clean football can only embarrass” he wrote.

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Blatter and the FIFA choice It’s only one in the Bütt

counter Sepp Blatter joins the FIFA election probably only one adversary at. This is the football Patron located – because he will be grilled 15 minutes or less painful to the international public.
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Personally, he had experienced, “as association presidents initially Fifa leaders with the Devil compared – and the next day, officially on the stage, with Jesus Christ. I was not told, I have experienced it myself. ” The accusation is aimed at Osiris Guzman, the football boss of the Dominican Republic had compared the Congress of North / Central America Association Concacaf with Jesus and Martin Luther King Blatter. 2011 Guzman had been suspended for several months due to corruption.

Blatter’s challenger were prevented from speaking and the Patriarch was also courted, complained Figo. “There was not a single public debate.” Unbelievable is also that Blatter had published no manifesto. Figo will continue to be available: “But only if it is established that FIFA is not a dictatorship.”

Hoping for Prince Ali

Van Praag practices officially more in diplomacy, he hopes to Prince Ali. But the Dutchman had already at the beginning of his candidacy from the reality in the Fifa so little idea that he even leaves a consultant job offered in the event that the losing. Intern Van Praag has similar experiences like Figo reported. At the Congress of the African Association of Caf, he told Dutch television people to delegates would not even dare to speak at public places with him. Fit to this fear of denunciation in Blatter’s FIFA World that the candidates were not allowed to speak at the Caf-Convention. Blatter has talked alone.