{"id":11456,"date":"2010-08-30T15:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/30\/afc-chief-to-back-blatter-as-fifa-head\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T15:45:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:45:54","slug":"afc-chief-to-back-blatter-as-fifa-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/30\/afc-chief-to-back-blatter-as-fifa-head\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC chief to back Blatter as FIFA head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Hammam02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Hammam02.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"341\" \/>PTV &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The president of the  Asian Football Confederation says he will support Sepp Blatter to stay  in his position as the FIFA president in the next election.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I will be backing Sepp Blatter to remain in office for a new mandate,&#8221; Mohamed Bin Hammam told AFP on Friday.  <\/p>\n<p>He also added that he would seek reelection as AFC president next year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My aim is to run for the next election of AFC president due at the start of 2011,&#8221; said the FIFA executive committee member. <\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old Qatari has been AFC chief since 2002 and has  overseen the launch of the AFC Champions League and the admission of  Australia into the confederation. <\/p>\n<p>Blatter was elected FIFA president in 1998 and won a reelection fight in 2002 before being returned unopposed in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>The FIFA president has made clear he has no plans on leaving when  his term runs out on June 11, 2011, saying he has not finished his  mission. <\/p>\n<p>Before Blatter, Brazil&#8217;s Joao Havelange led the world soccer body for 24 years. <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The president of the Asian Football Confederation says he will support&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":2583,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}