LUIS FIGO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF FIFA TOO
StrumSolo > 28/01/2015, 17:22
...and unlike the David Ginola stunt, there's actually a chance of it happening.
He's got the required backing of five national football associations, and having served on some UEFA committee or other since 2011 can demonstrate an active involvement in the game.
Some quotes from an interview with CNN earlier:
“I care about football, so what I’m seeing regarding the image of Fifa – not only now but in the past years – I don’t like it. If you search Fifa on the internet you see the first word that comes out: scandal – not positive words. It’s that we have to change first and try to improve the image of Fifa. Football deserves much better than this.
“I’ve been talking with so many important people in football – players, managers, president of federations – and they all think that something has to be done. Last year was the World Cup, I was in Brazil and I saw the reaction of all the fans regarding the image of Fifa and I think something has to be changed.
“Change in leadership, governance, transparency and solidarity, so I think it’s the moment for that.”
He went on to speak about the report on the 2018 and 2022 bidding process. “After that report was not published I think that was the moment of change and the moment I thought that something had to be done. If you are transparent and if you ask for an investigation, a report, which you have nothing to hide, why don’t you make public that report? If you have nothing to hide about that, you have to do it.
“Publishing the report is the easy thing to do if all the people is doubting what happened. If it came from Fifa to order that report and after that you don’t publish, it is not a good decision.”
Seems legit. Vote Figo! Blatter out!
The deadline for applications is tomorrow, with Jérôme Champagne, Prince Ali of Jordan and Michael van Praag, the head of the Dutch FA, also having confirmed their intentions to stand.