Argentina legend, Diego Maradona, has attacked FIFA president Sepp Blatter, claiming that the world football governing body has descended into anarchy with the Swiss at the helm.
With the FIFA presidency elections less than a month away, Maradona said it was time for the 79-year-old to go.
The World Cup winner also declared his support for Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who is contesting against Blatter.
Maradona stated that he would do anything to make the Jordanian win.
“If I didn’t believe that he would be a good president, I wouldn’t be here,” he told Guillem Balague in a syndicated interview, at the Soccerex Asian Forum at the King Hussein convention centre.
“As the football world knows, inside FIFA there is total anarchy, where there is only one man who decides everything.
“But he knows absolutely nothing. Therefore it is time for a change. And it is so because even his colleagues should actually advise him to leave.“
Maradona went on to insist that if Blatter won a fifth term as FIFA president, it would harm football.
He said: “He has done a lot of damage to football since he has been there. It’s time for him to step aside and let us, who are full of strength, renovate football”.
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