Tom Dutton22 June 2015
Diego Maradona wants to stand for the FIFA presidency to succeed Sepp Blatter, according to reports in South America.
The 54-year-old has been a fierce critic of Blatter’s and the former Argentina captain and manager has now decided to stand himself, said the Uruguayan broadcaster and writer Victor Hugo Morales.
Morales said on Twitter he had been authorised by Maradona to release the information.
Morales tweeted: “I called Diego Maradona to check on his father’s [health].
“He told me that he would be a candidate for president of FIFA and that I was authorised to communicate it.
“I am a candidate: those were the words that Diego Maradona replied when I consulted him for the nomination for the presidency of FIFA.”
