FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Monday that he will be a candidate for a fifth term in charge of World football in an election next year.
“Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate,” Blatter said in a video speech to a football conference in Manchester.
Blatter has been FIFA’s leader since 1998, but has faced growing criticism from European football chiefs in recent months.
Blatter said after winning his fourth term in 2011 that it would be his last but made it clear in recent months that he has changed his mind.
“I will inform the executive committee. It’s a question of respect also to say then to the football family: ‘Yes I will be ready. I will be a candidate,” Blatter told the Soccerex conference by video from Zurich.
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