Chung Mong-joon of South Korea announces that he wants to take the place of Sepp Blatter as the next president of Fifa.
Chung is a former vice-president of world football’s governing body and a considerable shareholder of the industrial giant Hyundai.
Chung revealed to the BBC’s World Football programme that Michel Platini was not the appropriate person for Fifa.
“If I get elected, my job is not to enjoy the luxury of the office.” He also said, “My job is to change it.”
According to Forbes, Chung is worth $1.2bn (£769m). He, 63-year-old, told his opinion that he did not approve of Platini that he would make an exceptional Fifa president.
“It will be ver difficult for Mr Platini to have any meaningful reforms,” told Chung.
“Mr Platini enjoys institutional support from the current structure of Fifa. Mr Platini is very much a product of the current system.”
Platini disclosed his plan to stand for 26 February election on Wednesday. However, participants have time till 26 October to be elected.
Blatter is resigning from his position as president after numerous accusations of damaging corruption against the organisation. Blatter has been running Fifa since 1998.
Authorities of the United States and Switzerland have projected individual criminal investigations of dishonesty at Fifa, with seven top officials accused of bribery and racketeering charges in the US.
The English Football Association has certified that it will reverse Platini’s bid for election, who is Uefa’s president.
Nevertheless, Chung, who assumes he has a “good chance” of winning the election, told: “It is time that Fifa had a non-European leadership.
“Fifa become a closed organisation for President Blatter, his associates and his cronies and I want to change that.”
Chung gave up his Fifa vice-presidency in 2010, to Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan, who failed when he stood opposite to Blatter in presidential elections of May.
Simultaneously, great Diego Maradona of Argentina has claimed he wants to duel with the “mafia” behind the corruption in Fifa.
The former Wold Cup winner, 54-year-old, told a local television channel of America: “I have to fight the mafia that still remains inside Fifa. I have to fight those who have for a long time stolen from inside Fifa.”
He also confessed, “I really want to be in Fifa.”
