GENEVA (AP) – FIFA cannot make credible changes in the last months of Sepp Blatter’s leadership of the scandal-hit body, former presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein said Monday.
The Jordanian prince also doubted the worth of FIFA’s in-house reforms task force which is supported by Michel Platini, his former ally and now front-runner to succeed Blatter in the Feb. 26 election.
“I don’t think anybody will take any decisions that are credible in the current situation,” Prince Ali told the Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday.
“I think that the important thing is that you need an overall change in leadership,” said the prince, who described Platini as “not good for FIFA” when the UEFA president launched his campaign two weeks ago. “The entire football world would like to see a change.”
Still, Prince Ali has not committed to making a second bid to be president and enact that change.