Saturday 23 April 2011

FIFA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The FIFA Presidental election will take place on June,1 2011.  There are only two candidates !!!

   - Sepp Blatter, the current president, who stands for re-election having already completed three terms as President.
   - Bin Hammam, who is president of the Asian Football Association.

Neither candidate has really made known why he is standing for the post of President.  What is known is that Sepp Blatter wants and peads for stability and no real changes.  Bin Hammam wants change and Goal-line technology .

This Blog has many times criticised FIFA for being a closed shop !!!  The voting procedures are secret, discussions on key changes awaited for years (video technology for example), age limits for key directors, televised debates, are all examples of what football followers expect to be covered by candidates for the Presidency of FIFA !!!

Goal-line technology is one easy problem, but more difficult would be the modernisation of  the FIFA statutes. This too must be tackled !!!

Would it not be possible for FIFA on the one hand,  and the Televsion Chains on the other hand (they provide so much of the funds for FIFA), to organise a professional debate, with a professional interviewer, so that cash paying spectators of football can understand what the candidates would do during the next four years ? 

Would such a debate (in mid May) not be first step of many, to render less opaque the whole FIFA organisation ?   FIFA would then learn from their comments, what spectators really want !!!       

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