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Sepp Blatter to run for fifth term as Fifa president



Sepp Blatter has announced he will stand for a fifth term as Fifa president in 2015.
After retaining his post unopposed in 2011, the 77-year-old Swiss - who has held the role since 1998 - had said he would not contest the next election.
But he told Swiss newspaper Blick: "I'm a candidate again. My mandate has ended but my mission is not finished."
The election to be president of world football's governing body will be held in Zurich in June next year.
Speaking to the BBC in October, Blatter declined to confirm he would be standing for another term,
but hinted that he intended to continue in the role.
Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb and former deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne have been tipped as alternatives
to Blatter as a future Fifa president, but both have said they would not stand in opposition to the current incumbent.

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Sepp Blatter 'has drive to continue' as Fifa president



Sepp Blatter has given his clearest indication yet that he will stand for a fifth term as Fifa president in 2015.
After retaining his post unopposed in June 2011, the 78-year-old Swiss, who has held the role since 1998, had said he would not contest the next election.
But he told Swiss television station RTS: "Of course I want to continue. I have the drive to continue."
Last week, Blatter reportedly confirmed that he would certainly run again,  but Fifa denied that was the case.
Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb and former deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne have been tipped as successors to Blatter,
but both have said they would not stand in opposition to the current incumbent if he stood for election in Zurich in June 2015.
"The path to the throne is not yet open," Blatter added.

"There are a lot of people who would like to take this position but they realise it is not a bed of roses."
Speculation that Uefa president Michel Platini, who has been a close ally of Blatter,
might succeed the Swiss at the world governing body has cooled since the former France midfielder opted against running in 2011.
Blatter appeared to dismiss the possibility that Platini could revive a bid for the sport's top job, saying the Frenchman "is a man with a very deep character, he wouldn't do it."

Blatter told the BBC in October that he had "a mission" to fulfil at Fifa ,
adding that he would support a proposal to increase presidential terms from four to eight years.
In his latest interview, Blatter also repeated his claim that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar may have been a "mistake".
"Yes, it was a mistake," he said. "We all make lots of mistakes in life.
"The technical report from Qatar clearly indicated it was too hot in summer,
but nevertheless, the executive committee, with a fairly large majority, decided that we would play in Qatar."
A subsequent Fifa statement stressed the point that Blatter was highlighting an oversight by the executive committee who voted for Qatar,
rather than questioning the country's ability to host the event.

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Sepp Blatter: Fifa president ready to stand for fifth term

By David Bond
BBC sports editor in Sao Paulo

Fifa president Sepp Blatter said "his mission is not finished" as he was cleared to stand for a fifth term.
Blatter, 78, has been criticised over the damage corruption allegations have inflicted on football's governing body.
But ahead of the 2014 World Cup, Fifa decided not to impose an age limit nor maximum terms for officials.
Meanwhile, Blatter proposed managers be allowed two challenges to refereeing decisions during a match with immediate television reviews.
Swiss Blatter was greeted with applause as he gave his closing remarks at Fifa's annual congress in Sao Paulo ahead of the World Cup in Brazil.
"I know that my mandate will finish next year on 29 May in Zurich, but my mission is not finished," he said.
We will build the new Fifa together. We have the foundations today because we have the budget for the next four years.
"Congress you will decide who takes this great institution forward. But I can tell you I am ready to accompany you in the future."

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter thinks managers should be allowed to challenge decisions



FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for managers to be allowed to challenge refereeing decisions during matches.

Blatter told FIFA's Congress on Wednesday that managers could be given two challenges per match.

The 78-year-old’s proposal came as a surprise in light of his previously-stated support for match officials as well as his resistance to the use of technology.

Blatter previously back-tracked on his opposition to the use of goal-line technology following Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal for England against Germany at the 2010 World Cup.

But the Swiss told FIFA’s Congress: "I think it's good to put the game and the control of the game in question."

Speaking at a news conference after the Congress, Blatter revealed he devised the proposal after speaking to a number of key stakeholders in football.

"I spoke with former footballers and coaches and I think it is an idea and we have the possibility now with the new organisation

of IFAB (International Football Association Board) where we will have a technical panel and a football panel and it will be a good discussion.

"When you are looking at so many matches on the TV, and we have 34 cameras here and it is so evident what has happened I think it is a good idea.

"If it is feasible we will see but when I have an idea I generally try to bring it."

Former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher is astonished by Blatter’s proposals and believes the system would be open to abuse if implemented.

“It’s such a contradiction in view of what he has stood for, for so long it’s unbelievable,” Gallagher told Sky Sports News.

“He was so resistant to goal-line technology, because he said it was a one size fits all approach

because you can’t have professional teams playing one way and other teams playing another.

“Everything was resisted including challenges to red cards and suddenly out of nowhere comes this idea which I don’t think many referees will be too keen on to be honest.

“Why he has come out with this I really don’t know because he’s also stood firm on not allowing people to challenge referees, not allowing the referee to be undermined on the pitch.

“Refereeing-wise it’s not an idea I would be happy with if I was still active. I can’t see senior referees in the Premier League wanting that.

I can’t see the point in it, I can’t see what it will achieve, I can’t see it being for the betterment of the game.

“It’s something I’ve heard many times from different people at different times but for me it’s just a bizarre idea because it can be used

as a tactic by managers to slow the game down, a chance for him to regroup his players and such like.

“I just think it will open a can of worms.”


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Sepp Blatter to stand for fifth term as FIFA president

Sepp Blatter has confirmed that he will stand for a fifth term as FIFA president.

The 78-year-old Swiss announced the news via a video interview played at the Soccerex conference in Manchester.

Blatter, who was first elected to the role in 1998, had pledged before his re-election in 2011 that his current term would be his last.

But he said the backing of the majority of the national associations at the FIFA Congress in Sao Paulo in June had convinced him to keep going.

"You see a mission is never finished. And my mission is not finished," he said.

"Then 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'."

Blatter effectively has a free run at a fifth term in office after UEFA president Michel Platini announced last month that he would not be challenging the incumbent for the role.

Platini told UEFA delegates in Monaco that he had decided against standing for the FIFA post as he wants to continue his work as head of European football's ruling body.

The election for president will take place at the FIFA Congress next May.

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