{"id":150381,"date":"2015-09-10T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=150381"},"modified":"2015-09-10T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T07:23:00","slug":"prince-ali-announces-fifa-presidential-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=150381","title":{"rendered":"Prince Ali announces FIFA presidential candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan has announced that he will stand in the upcoming Fifa presidential election.<\/p>\n

Ali, 39, pushed incumbent president Sepp Blatter to a second round of voting in May’s poll, winning 73 votes, before standing aside in the contest.<\/p>\n

He joins Uefa president Michel Platini as confirmed candidates to replace Blatter and lead football’s world governing body.<\/p>\n

The election is due to be held on 26 February next year.<\/p>\n

“This election should be about football, not personal ambition. We have come too far to walk away now,” Ali said.<\/p>\n

“We must overcome deep-seated corruption but I was not brought up to walk away from a tough fight. This is about right and wrong.”<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/p>\n

Prince Ali took to twitter to stake his claim to be Fifa president<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Blatter, 79, triggered next year’s election by announcing shortly after winning the last vote that he would resign amid twin criminal investigations into alleged corruption at Fifa.<\/p>\n

Seven Fifa officials were arrested in May on charges of racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering.<\/p>\n

Former Fifa executive Chung Mong-joon of South Korea has alsoindicated that he will run in next year’s election, as has Liberian FA president Musa Bility.<\/p>\n

Referring to May’s election, Ali added: “I was the only person who dared to challenge Blatter, I ran because I believe that Fifa needs change.<\/p>\n

“I had the courage when others feared. They didn’t have the guts to run, but I did.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan has announced that he will stand in the upcoming Fifa presidential election. Ali, 39, pushed incumbent president Sepp Blatter to a second round of voting in May’s poll, winning 73 votes, before standing aside in the contest. He joins Uefa president Michel Platini as confirmed candidates to replace Blatter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":150382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-150381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}