I will not be able to speak to you ladies and gentleman when we speak about football.
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Potential candidates are already planning campaigns for the most high profile job in sports politics.
And his presidency will now come to an end in seven months’ time, with UEFA president Michel Platini widely tipped as a front-runner to succeed him. “He is seriously considering running”.
However, he declined to immediately declare his earnings after twice being challenged to do so during a media conference. Brodkin was promptly arrested, but not before he made his extremely clear point: FIFA has a long way to go before its image is cleared up. Domenico Scala, the independent head of FIFA’s audit committee, has been devising possible plans for overhauling the organization, including term limits for senior officials and the disclosure of previously unavailable information (specifically, the salaries of top executives).
The Internet memes then started to pile in.
When Blatter began speaking again he blamed the intrusion on “a lack of education”.
Blatter and senior vice president Issa Hayatou held sway with a late tactic.
Platini has been asked to run by the majority of FIFA’s confederations but has not yet decided whether to be a candidate, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.
Blatter was showered with what looked like U.S. dollar bills by a British protester before the start of the news conference and, visibly shaken, walked out of the auditorium.
An embarrassed Blatter looks on with fake dollar notes flying around him, thrown by Brodkin in Zurich yesterday.
Brodkin’s disruption of the FIFA news conference caps a tough period for FIFA and Blatter, who announced that he was stepping down as president back in early June, on the heels of sweeping accusations of corruption leveled against the soccer governing body. He is best known for playing a character called Lee Nelson, which he performs in his stand-up routine.
Some weeks ago, he said he never gave any undertaking that he was resigning.
“We have to clean here first”.
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The leadership of crisis-hit world football governing body FIFA gathered at their Zurich headquarters on Monday to set a date for the vote to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter. The comedian, who has appeared on British television shows, is a repeat gatecrasher.
