Three years ago, I announced I was running for Fifa president fifa 14 coins buy as the People’s Candidate, a voice for the world’s common fan. My platform was simple enough: I would support common sense reforms goal line technology, term limits for Fifa officials, finally bringing women into Fifa governance and do a WikiLeaks on Fifa, releasing every internal document to the public so we could find out how clean or unclean the organisation really was in the wake of the dubious votes for the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Fifa officials like to talk about how it’s a great democracy, but most great democracies don’t have one candidate elections, as Fifa had for its presidency in 2007 and, it would turn out, in 2011 too.
My campaign was a bit like the writer Norman Mailer’s run for mayor of New York City in 1969 half serious, half satire and we had fun at Sports Illustrated producing a slick campaign video. We surveyed our readers to ask who they would elect if given the chance and I got 95% per cent of the vote, while incumbent Sepp Blatter got 2% and challenger Mohamed bin Hammam got 3%. I wasn’t naive my appeal had less to do with anything about me than it did with public dissatisfaction around the world with Blatter and every other Fifa hack candidate. That was the point I had every right to run for president under Fifa's rules at the time.
As I had discovered, anyone could announce his candidacy, but to become an official candidate on the ballot you had to obtain a public nomination from at least one of Fifa's 208 national federations by the deadline two months before the election. Blatter had already been nominated by the FA of Somalia, the world’s most corrupt country according to Transparency International, so I was aiming for one of the world’s least corrupt nations to nominate me. Over the next six weeks, I ended up contacting some 150 associations and received responses from countries big www.fifacoinsworld.co.uk Australia and the US and small Iceland, Dominica and Macedonia and somewhere in between Sweden, Chile, Ireland and Israel.