Joseph S. Blatter has announced reforms © SID-IMAGES/AFP/PATRICK KOVARIKJoseph S. Blatter has before the election against his counterpart Mohamed Bin Hammam announced major reforms in the future award of the World Championships.
Frankfurt/Main (SID) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter has about a month before the election showdown against his counterpart Mohamed Bin Hammam announced major reforms in the future award of the World Cup. "This is a project that I have in mind." I would pleased the example of the International Olympic Committee in the future to avoid what has now taken place. The Executive gets ten or twelve nominations, look at them, proposes the best, and can then select the General Assembly. "That would be a solution for the FIFA, something positive," said the head of the International Association of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Saturday Edition).
Blatter to respond the double award of the World Championships, shadowed by allegations of corruption (Russia) 2018 and 2022 (Qatar). The Swiss in the future with a parent body wants to counteract the crisis of credibility. "It shall be an institution, which acts outside our root order." A ' Committee of wise men ', but with more power. There will be people who are not from the football. "You should understand some of the football, but mainly the credibility back," Blatter said.
No understanding showed Blatter for the candidacy of Bin Hammam, who wants to join the incumbent of the throne on 1 June at the 61. FIFA Congress in Zurich. "I don't know why bin Hammam was suddenly so aggressive." "He has said repeatedly in the Executive Committee, he would never compete against me, and now it is still", the year which aims at his fourth term as FIFA boss said: "I imagine that I have half of the votes in Asia and Africa as and to the rest of the world's been a larger majority."
Meanwhile defended bin is symbolically to double the votes for the election by the announcement that the annual financial contributions for the 208 member associations to 500,000 Hammam against the charge that would have it, buy. "This is not an inappropriate operation." "It's completely normal that the associations would like to know what plans the candidate and how he wants to help them", said the Challenger from Qatar.
