Diego Maradona believes he'll be a FIFA vice president if Prince Ali wins presidential election
The legendary player now wants to move into world football's governing body as an executive
Diego Maradona thinks that he could become a FIFA vice president if Prince Ali of Jordan wins the upcoming presidential election.
The Argentine legend and World Cup winner has long been a critic of FIFA and alleged corruption in world football's governing body.
But he sees himself as a perfect fit to help with the upcoming reforms, and claimed on Argentine television that there's a strong possibility of him stepping into the upper ranks of FIFA if Ali bin Al-Hussein can beat off the likes of Luis Figo and Michael van Praag in the upcoming ballot.
"If Prince Ali wins, I have a great chance of being vice president of FIFA," Maradona said.
"And if I get there, I'm going to clean up everything!"
Maradona has strong links with the Middle East after managing Emirati side Al-Wasl, and is now based in Dubai.
And despite having been banned by FIFA for a failed drugs test at the 1994 World Cup and ostracised by his own country's football association after a failed stint as national team head coach, the 54-year-old claimed that his ambitions to rise into football governance aren't motivated by a desire to get one back on the authorities.
"I'm not doing this thirsty for revenge.
"I'm going into it with the idea of making pitches in Santiago del Estero [a province in Argentina] and also in Africa."
Publicado por: Mirror
June 8th, 2015
Source: www.mirror.co.uk
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