- Title: SOUTH KOREA: MEMBERS OF FIFA ARRIVE TO VOTE FOR NEW PRESIDENT
- Date: 29th May 2002
- Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MAY 29, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. EXTERIOR OF FIFA CONGRESS VENUE 2. VARIOUS OF FORMER FIFA PRESIDENT JOAO HAVELANGE ARRIVING 3. MORE OF HAVELANGE 4. FIFA PRESIDENT SEPP BLATTER WALKING 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FIFA PRESIDENT SEPP BLATTER SAYING: "No, it is like a football match. You have to learn to win and you have to learn to lose. But I do hope that I am going to win." 6. VARIOUS OF UEFA PRESIDENT LENNART JOHANSSON ARRIVING 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LENNART JOHANSSON, UEFA PRESIDENT, SAYING: "Impossible to predict the outcome of the, you think about the election, that is impossible to predict. I think it will be quite equal, and we will see. It even close to two votes. That's all I can say." 8. FIFA VICE PRESIDENT AND CO-CHAIRMAN OF KOREAN ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR WORLD CUP SOCCER FINALS CHUNG MONG-JOON 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FIFA SECRETARY GENERAL MICHEL ZEN-RUFFINEN SAYING: "It's a political question, and I don't answer political questions. I have to be neutral in the campaign, okay?" 10. VARIOUS OF PRESIDENT OF CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL ISSA HAYATOU ARRIVING 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT OF CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL ISSA HAYATOU SAYING: "(To a question "How do you think the elections to be?) For me. (laugh)." 12. MORE OF HAYATOU 13. VARIOUS OF HOTEL LOBBY 14. VARIOUS OF FIFA DELEGATES ENTERING HOTEL 15. VARIOUS OF FIFA DELEGATES ENTERING CONGRESS ROOM 16. MORE OF JOHANSSON 17. BLATTER WALKING ACROSS ROOM 18. VARIOUS OF ZEN-RUFFINEN 19. FIFA CONGRESS ROOM Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Reuters ID: LVA1B858LM0040GDOXFQ519XZDE9
- Story Text: FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his only contender Issa
Hayatou of Cameroon said they were both confident to win this
evening's FIFA presidential elections.
Sepp Blatter and his opponent in the FIFA presidential
election race Issa Hayatou were both full of optimism before
the start of FIFA's 53rd ordinary congress at the Seoul Hilton on
Wednesday (May 29).
Blatter, facing a court case and critics who accuse him of
leading soccer's governing body into financial crisis, is
running for a second term of office and said he was confident of
victory.
When asked if he felt worried to lose the presidency, the
President replied: "No, it is like a football match. You have
to learn to win and you have to learn to lose. But I do hope that
I am going to win."
But president of European football association said it was
impossible to predict the outcome of the election.
"Impossible to predict the outcome of the, you think about
the election, that is impossible to predict. I think it will
be quite equal, and we will see. It even close to two votes.
That's all I can say," said UEFA President Lennart Johansson.
Zen-Ruffinen, vehemently opposed to the way Blatter has
run FIFA for the last four years, refused to comment on the
election.
Hayatou also said he was optimistic and walked away into
the hotel lobby where his supporters greeted him with applauded.
"(The outcome will turn out) For me."
Blatter, opening the congress, said those delegates who
were unable to speak in Tuesday's debate on FIFA finances, could
speak before the vote for the presidency was held.
He also said that David Will, the chairman of the internal
audit committee, set up to examine the state of FIFA's
finances, would be able to address delegates. Blatter prevented
him from taking the floor on Tuesday.
Depending on how long that takes and how many delegates
are allowed to take the floor will determine when the actual vote
for the presidency is taken. Blatter said it would be the last
item on the agenda.
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