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Champagne to take on Blatter for FIFA job
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LONG-TIME FIFA incumbent Sepp Blatter will have at least one rival for next year’s presidential election as former senior FIFA executive Jerome Champagne confirmed on Monday he would contest against the Swiss.
The 56-year-old Frenchman, who worked closely with Blatter between 2002 and 2005 when he was deputy secretary-general, said on Twitter he had sent a letter to FIFA headquarters in Switzerland that he would be a candidate.
Champagne had said in January that he did not think he could beat 77-year-old Blatter, who has been in charge since 1998, if he ran but he had a chance if UEFA chief Michel Platini was a candidate. A former diplomat who worked on France’s successful bid for the right to host the 1998 World Cup before joining FIFA as an international advisor, Champagne said he was delighted that a debate had begun about the future of FIFA and football and hoped more candidates would throw their hat into the ring.
“I have the honor of informing you that I have just written to the FIFA Ad-hoc Electoral Committee and its president, Mr. Domenico Scala, to confirm my intention to run for FIFA president,” said Champagne in a letter to football federations. “On a personal level, I am happy that the debate about the future of FIFA and football has finally begun with the prospect of various candidates.”
The election will be held in May at the FIFA Congress.
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