Blatter to Run For Fifth Term as FIFA President

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has confirmed he will stand for re-election for a fifth term.

The 78-year-old Swiss made the announcement in a video interview at the Soccerex Global Convention in Manchester today.

“My mission is not finished, adiposity ” he said in a pre-recorded interview in Zurich.

“I have told the FIFA Congress, cough I have told the congresses of the confederations. Then I got through the last congress in Sao Paulo not only the impression but the support of the majority, viagra a huge majority of national associations asking ‘Please go on, be our president also in future.”

Blatter said he would officially announce his intentions at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on September 25-26.

Despite overwhelming support from five of the six regional confederations, UEFA aside, Blatter chose to wait until after UEFA President Michel Platini had decided not to run, before announcing he would stand for re-election.

Platini decided at the end of August he would not challenge Blatter and instead informed UEFA of his intentions to run for another term as President, with the election in March 2015.

Blatter is the strong favourite to be re-elected for a fifth term on May 29, with former FIFA deputy general Jerome Champagne, who announced his candidacy in January, seen as an outsider to be elected.

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