ZURICH (AP)—FIFA’s executive board rejected a commence to limit the basis of soccer’s president to eight years.
Members voted 15-5 with anybody abstention Friday to propel out a proposition past Asian confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam, which would have taken result in support of the nomination in May 2011. It was viewed as an rift challenge to Sepp Blatter, who was elected in 1998 and intends to leave high for a fourth term.
The preference indicated that Bin Hammam lacks enough hold up under to mount a serious challenge.
“The lay of the land can be disparate than it is today, in January 2011,” Bin Hammam told The Associated Press.
A 60-year-old Qatari, Bin Hammam, has represented Asia on FIFA’s director board since 1996. Aside from his own referendum, Bin Hammam said he got be supportive of from his three Asian colleagues—Chung Mong-Joon of South Korea, who also has presidential ambitions; Japan’s Junji Ogura; and Worawi Makudi of Thailand. He declined to recognize the fifth backer.
Bin Hammam said he last will and testament not re-establish his design at the FIFA Congress, scheduled June 9-10 in Johannesburg to the fore of the Sphere Cup opener.
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