FIFA President: Platini ran for Blatter’s successor – THE WORLD

Uefa president Michel Platini will be the successor to Joseph S. Blatter at the top of the football world governing body on February 26, 2016. The Frenchman was on Wednesday officially his candidacy for the office of FIFA President announced.

such as UEFA announced on its website, Platini informed the presidents and general secretaries the 209 FIFA member associations in a letter of his intention.

“It was a very personal, thoughtful decision when I was facing the future of football I weighed my future, “Platini wrote. “There are moments in life when you have to take its fate into its own hands. This is such a moment.”

According to information of the German Press -Agentur should now have the commitments made by the Confederations of Europe, Asia, South America and North and Central America, the former world-class footballers. Thus, the majority of 60-year-old would have been safe.

The 60-year-old, since 2007 head of Uefa and since 2002 member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation, announced at the Fifa “dignity and value return”, they deserve. “Together, we can present a Fifa tens of millions of football fans, how they want it,” he wrote to the officials: “exemplary, united in solidarity, respected and loved.”

Blatter will cede after 18 years in response to the corruption scandal. As a possible successor Platini at the head of Uefa applies DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach.

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