Joseph Blatter will stand for re-election as FIFA president next year, he confirmed this morning. The Swiss administrator, who was first elected in 1998, said, “a mission is never finished. And my mission is not finished”. He continued: “I got through the last congress in Sao 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 current president said that he would make an official declaration in September at FIFA’s executive committee meeting on 25-26 September this year. He said it was a question of “respect” to say to the football family “Yes, I’ll be ready, I’ll be a candidate”.
The deadline to register as a candidate for the presidential election is January 2015 and the election will take place at the FIFA Congress next June.
At the moment Blatter has only one rival, Frenchman Jerome Champagne, former general secretary of FIFA, with Michel Platini, UEFA president, ruling himself out of a bid to take control of the game’s global governing body.
Prior to the World Cup five of the six FIFA confederations, with the exception of UEFA, gave their support to Blatter in his bid for a fifth term, meaning it’s unlikely he will not be re-elected.
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