Sepp Blatter, Mohamed Bin Hammam to run for FIFA presidency

Sepp Blatter, Mohamed Bin Hammam to run for FIFA presidency
April 4, 2011 - 17:03 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Mohamed Bin Hammam will be the only challenger for the Fifa presidency when incumbent Sepp Blatter stands for re-election on June 1, football’s world governing body confirmed on Monday.

Fifa said that Swiss Blatter, who has been president since 1998 and will be trying for a fourth term, and Qatari multi-millionaire businessman Bin Hammam were the only candidates to register by the April 1 deadline.

The election will be held on June 1 at the Fifa Congress in Zurich where each one of the 208 member national associations holds a vote, provided they are not suspended at the time.

Blatter, Fifa’s eighth president since the organisation was founded in 1904, joined as a technical officer in 1975 and was general secretary from 1981 to 1998 under the presidency of Joao Havelange.

Bin Hammam, 61, is also a candidate from within Fifa, having been a member of the powerful executive committee since 1996, dawn.com reported.

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