Three opposition candidates appeared earlier than Blatter

The 4 who’re going for the FIFA presidential seat.

Zurich.- This Monday vThe deadline to current the lists has handed and now the group’s electoral fee will consider whether or not Luis Figo, Ali bin Al Hussein and Michael Van Praag meet the necessities to problem Sepp Blatter for the very best throne on Might 29.

The FIFA electoral fee introduced on Monday that it had acquired 4 candidates for the elections to its presidency scheduled for Might 29 and can now “consider” them.

These are the nominations of Joseph Blatter, present president and nice favourite, the previous Portuguese worldwide Luis Figo, the Jordanian prince Ali bin Al Hussein – one of many vice presidents of FIFA -, and Michael van Praag, president of the Dutch Federation .

The FIFA electoral fee should validate in about 10 days the candidacies that had been deposited earlier than Thursday at 8 p.m. (Argentina time).

The suitors will need to have had an lively position within the administration of soccer, both nationally or internationally, for 2 of the final 5 years, and have the sponsorship of at the least 5 of the 209 federations that make up FIFA.

Controversy with Figo
The 2000 Ballon d’Or winner assured in response to the claims of a few of his opponents that he has the assist of six nationwide federations to run for the FIFA presidency, which establishes the assist of 5 international locations as a requirement to be a candidate for the place.

“I’m joyful to verify that my six sponsors have been despatched to FIFA this week earlier than the top of the established deadline,” stated the previous Portuguese star of Barcelona and Actual Madrid on his Twitter social community account.

Hours after the Portuguese announcement, one other of the candidates, Jordanian prince Ali bin Al Hussein, 39 years outdated and vp of FIFA, additionally introduced that he had obtained the endorsements.

“I’ve the honour of getting acquired the endorsements that enable me to enter the race for the presidency of FIFA,” he wrote on AliforFifa.

Joseph Blatter, 78 years outdated and on the head of the worldwide federation since 1998, is the nice favourite for victory.

Michael Van Praag, 67 years outdated and president of the Dutch federation, has had no issues assembly the 2 standards, who revealed his six helps: Belgium, Sweden, Scotland, Romania, Faroe Islands and Holland.