Legendary Argentine football player and coach Diego Maradona says he will run for the presidency of the International Federation of Association Footbal (FIFA), a journalist close to the star says.
"He told me he would be a candidate for president of FIFA and authorized me to communicate it," Uruguayan journalist Victor Hugo Morales tweeted. Morales says he initially called Maradona to check how his sick father was doing.
Maradona has been a harsh critic of incumbent FIFA president, 79-year-old Swiss Sepp Blatter. Blatter is under enormous pressure from investigations into claims of corruption by the FBI and Swiss authorities. The scandal, which has already led to charges against 18 senior FIFA officials, has forced Blatter to announce he would resign soon. He made the announcement just days after defiantly winning his fifth term as FIFA president in late May.
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