Despite the biggest scandal of the FIFA story goes Joseph Blatter in his fifth term as president of world football association. Of the 79-year-old Swiss won the FIFA Congress with 133: 73 votes in the first ballot against his only challenger Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, not the required two-thirds majority. However, the Jordanians moved before a possible second round of voting his candidacy.
For Blatter were in the secret ballot, the second highest number of votes against his tenure. The controversial Swiss leads the FIFA on since 1998 and secured his power for another four years.
Blatter: “need to improve our image again”
“We need to improve our image again. Tomorrow we have to do with it, “Blatter said in his speech candidates. Before the election, he had pushed the responsibility for the recent corruption scandal with arrests of seven football officials in Zurich to individuals. “The guilty when they are alone convicted as guilty, these are individuals, that is not the entire organization.”
The Swiss called the Hallenstadion of Zurich in the face of the biggest earthquake in the history of FIFA active collaborations the 209 members. “Today I call on you to team spirit, so that we can progress together. We have come together to tackle the problems, “he said.
According to the indictment of the US Department of Justice with a total of 14 accused, two days before the election, especially the leaves opponents from Europe had the sensation for her favored candidate al-Hussein hoped. Even DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach announced his vote for the FIFA Vice President
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The new freestyle Blatter is expected to exacerbate the conflict with the European Football Union so. UEFA president Michel Platini had not ruled out a withdrawal of European teams from all FIFA competitions for this case. Another option is, according to Platini a collective withdrawal by the European members of the FIFA Executive Committee. Niersbach moved at the Congress, succeeding Theo Zwanziger in the World Government of football, but held to a future resignation still open.
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