{"id":12028,"date":"2011-03-19T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/19\/afc-head-to-run-for-fifa-presidency\/"},"modified":"2011-03-19T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:11:04","slug":"afc-head-to-run-for-fifa-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/03\/19\/afc-head-to-run-for-fifa-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC head to run for FIFA presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"binhammamfraud\"PTV – KUALA LUMPUR, The Qatari president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced that he would compete for the role of FIFA head later this year. <\/strong><\/div>\n

“After careful consideration I have decided to stand in the FIFA presidential elections on June 1 at the FIFA congress,” Mohamed Bin Hammam said on Friday. <\/p>\n

“I have the wish and will to serve FIFA — I have always declared that competition is good,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters. <\/p>\n

Incumbent president Sepp Blatter from Switzerland is seeking a fourth term as the head of FIFA. <\/p>\n

Bin Hammam, who was sworn in unopposed for a third and final four-year term as AFC head in January, is hoping to become the ninth president of FIFA and the first from Asia. <\/p>\n

To win the election, the candidates must convince two-thirds of FIFA’s 208 member nations — 138 of them — to vote their way.\t <\/p>\n

For Bin Hammam to win would require an enormous switch of support away from Blatter, who beat Issa Hayatou of Cameroon by 139-56 votes in the last election in 2002 and was reelected by acclamation of the 208 members in 2007. <\/p>\n

Bin Hammam’s enormous influence helped Qatar win the right to stage the 2022 World Cup finals when FIFA’s executive committee voted on the issue in December.\t <\/p>\n

The FIFA election would be held at the two-day FIFA Congress in Zurich starting on May 31. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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