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Chung Mong-Joon claims FIFA is in ‘total meltdown’ and calls for urgent reform
FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-Joon has called for a task force to run football’s world body after Sepp Blatter was placed under criminal investigation.
The South Korean former FIFA vice president said an emergency congress should be held to set up the force to oversee the scandal-tainted body.
Swiss prosecutors last week placed Blatter under investigation, only days after FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke was suspended over allegations of involvement in tickets sold at inflated prices.
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Chung said the FIFA organisation that should be preparing for the 2018 World Cup in Russia is in “total meltdown”.
“FIFA and regional confederations should consider convening extraordinary sessions of their respective executive committees as well as a Congress to set up an emergency task force that will enable the FIFA secretariat to function without interruption,” Chung said.
His spokesman Lin Byung-Taik claims Chung wants an “emergency congress” even before one to be held in February to elect a new president.
Blatter is being investigated for alleged criminal mismanagement, including a 2 million Swiss franc payment made to UEFA president Michel Platini.
Platini said on Monday the money was declared to Swiss authorities. But no one has yet explained why a payment for work carried out between 1998 and 2002 was only made in 2011.
The Frenchman had been the favourite to take over but the new revelations could dramatically alter the election race.
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Chung is another leading candidate along with Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al Hussein who said the world body has been “decimated” by the new scandal.
Chung, who , added: “The most urgent task at hand is to root out corruption from within FIFA.
“Investigations into illegal act-ivities of the past should be left to the proper legal authorities. Justice must be served. Resuscitating FIFA, however, should be left to those who love football. The future of football should not be left in the hands of outsiders.”
