Diego Maradona will stand for the
presidency of scandal-tainted FIFA presidency, a Uruguayan journalist who
presents a television show with the Argentine football legend, said Monday.
“‘I am candidate’ are the words that
Diego Maradona used when I asked him about the candidacy for the FIFA
presidency,” journalist Victor Hugo Morales said on Twitter.
Morales said he had telephoned
Maradona to ask how his father was. The two present the De Zurda television
show together. Maradona is a strong critic of FIFA under current president Sepp
Blatter,
who announced last month that he would step down.
World football’s governing body has
been rocked by two multinational corruption investigations launched by US and
Swiss authorities.
Former Brazilian star Zico and Liberian
football federation president Musa Bility have already declared themselves
candidates. The special FIFA congress will not be held before December
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