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Blatter still on a mission with Fifa
Body's president announces he will stand for a fifth term
SEPP BLATTER confirmed yesterday he will stand for a fifth term as Fifa president next year claiming his mission to change football is not finished.
Blatter has been president for the past 16 years. Despite criticism of corruption during his four terms in charge — he handed Qatar the 2022 World Cup and is yet to do anything about appalling working conditions for stadium workers — the 78-year-old feels that he still has more to offer the world of football.
He had been widely expected to stand again despite saying in 2011 that his current term would be his and then again at a Uefa congress in Paris last year.
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