DEAD
SEA (Jordan): Argentina's World Cup winning captain Diego Maradona
launched a blistering attack on FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Monday
saying that world soccer's governing body had descended into anarchy
with the 79-year-old Swiss in charge.
With the FIFA
presidential election less than a month away, Maradona, one of the
greatest players to ever grace the game and the inspiration behind
Argentina's 1986 World Cup victory, said the time was long overdue for
Blatter to go.
He said he would do all he could to help Prince
Ali Bin Al Hussein win the election, even though the 39-year-old
Jordanian royal hinted on Monday he might consider pulling out of the
contest if he thought one of the other two challengers could win.
In a syndicated interview with Guillem Balague, the moderator at the
Soccerex Asian Forum at the King Hussein convention centre, some 60
kilometres from the Jordanian capital Amman, Maradona pulled no punches
and gave his backing to the Jordanian royal.
Asked why he replied: "If I didn't believe that he would be a good president, I wouldn't be here.
"As the football world knows, inside FIFA there is total anarchy, where there is only one man who decides everything.
"But he knows absolutely nothing. Therefore it is time for a change.
And it is so because even his colleagues should actually advise him to
leave." -TOI
No comments:
Post a Comment