Football superstar Pele said here Monday that she has not got thought to chief FIFA, and that is contemding with an remarkable problem incident that have generated the cancellation of their leader Sepp Blatter and UEFA chief Michael Platini.
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Ali was the sole challenger to Blatter in the May 29 presidential election but conceded defeat after receiving 73 votes to the Swiss’ 133 in the first round of voting.
Blatter and Platini deny wrongdoing.
The Frenchman, 60, has said he accepted the sum as delayed payment for work carried out as Blatter’s adviser between 1998 and 2002.
Uefa initially said its executive committee stood “fully behind” Platini despite the ban, but its 54 member associations will now discuss the body’s next move at the summit in Geneva.
Hansen also sits on FIFA’s audit and compliance panel so is likely to have deep knowledge of the case when UEFA meets on Thursday and Platini’s position is scrutinized. Why should he have money paid at that moment, at that time of the year, and then not reporting it to the UEFA executive?
But Villar, the head of the Spanish federation, remains at risk of sanctions himself from a separate investigation into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
As such, senior figures within Uefa are believed to have sounded out the possibility of Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa standing for the presidency, believing he could provide clean hands and command support from Asia, Europe and South America. FIFA, however, is under the temporary leadership of Issa Hayatou, who is due to arrive this week at the Zurich headquarters for the first time since becoming acting president.
Officials from several of the associations have all said they would not be prepared to continue to support Platini in his ambitions of running for the FIFA presidency if no written agreement exists.
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When Fifa’s executive committee meets next week for its own crisis talks, one of the items under discussion is expected to be whether to postpone the presidential election. “The rules should not be changed after the game has started”.
