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Chung Mong-Joon Admits FIFA Candidacy Is In Doubt After Unsuccessful Appeal

South Korea's Chung Mong-joon said that he has been left in a "double bind" after a Swiss court rejected his request to temporarily lift a six-year ban from football that would "allow him to stand as a candidate" in FIFA's presidential election, according to Peter Rutherford of REUTERS. A Zurich District Court denied Chung's request and ruled there was "no indication of a defective procedure" on the part of FIFA's ethics committee in banning the South Korean. Chung has said he would appeal the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and described the sanction as a "shameful attempt" to "punish his open criticism" of FIFA, which is mired in the "worst corruption scandal in its 111-year history." Chung hit out at FIFA, saying the ethics committee "had yet to provide him with the reasoned decision behind his ban," which undermined his court case. Chung said in a statement, "FIFA continues to sabotage my candidacy for FIFA president. I am in a double bind: I cannot maintain my candidacy because of the unjust sanctions, but I cannot appeal those sanctions or get an injunction from the Swiss court because I do not have the reasoned decision that FIFA's Ethics Committee has so far refused to send me" (REUTERS, 10/21).

SEARCHING FOR SUPPORT: ESPN's Mark Rodden reported former Brazilian footballer Zico "still wants to stand" in February's FIFA presidential election but is "struggling to secure the required backing" of five national FAs. Zico, 62, has until Oct. 26 to "gather sufficient support for his bid" to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president. Zico said that he wanted to "clean up football" and would represent the "entire community" involved in the sport. But he has yet to get any official backing, and said even the Brazilian FA had "only promised to back him once he had proof that four other federations were behind him." He said, "The six [continental] confederations put pressure on their associations and have created a situation where they vote en bloc. So as a result the most important federations are often afraid to give their support to a different candidate to the one designated by the confederations" (ESPN, 10/21).

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