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Sepp Blatter claims he wants to reform how FIFA selects World Cup hosts if he is re-elected as president.<\/p>\n

Blatter, 75, admits he has been stung by the criticism after FIFA’s 24-man executive committee chose Russia and Qatar for 2018 and 2022 hosts respectively in December – England and the United States were among the losers.<\/p>\n

Now he is considering allowing all of FIFA’s 208 member associations to vote on the host country.<\/p>\n

Blatter, who is standing against Asian football supremo Mohamed Bin Hammam in the election on June 1, told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine: “That’s a project I have at the back of my mind. I’d like to adopt the example of the International Olympic Committee to avoid a repeat of what’s happened in future.<\/p>\n

“The executive committee receives 10 or 12 bids, looks at them, recommends the best ones and then lets the plenary meeting vote.<\/p>\n

“That would be a positive solution for FIFA. In view of the uncomfortable experience I had here in Zurich on December 2 it’s an idea worth considering.”<\/p>\n

Blatter also revealed his salary as more than one million US dollars a year, but said that FIFA executives’ pay was chicken feed compared to corporate salaries.<\/p>\n

“If we compare ourselves with other large, listed international companies, we’re schoolboys when it comes to pay,” he said.<\/p>\n

Asked about his salary, he replied: “One million dollars. Perhaps a bit more. I’m not ashamed by that.”<\/p>\n

He added that he would be happy to publish executive committee members’ payments if that was agreed by the FIFA Congress.<\/p>\n

Blatter said he will bring in a new body to deal with corporate governance and compliance to “restore the credibility of FIFA”.<\/p>\n

“It is designed to be an institution that acts outside our normal procedures and structures. A ‘council of the wise’ but with a bit more power,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It will be made up of people from outside football. I’ve already identified a chairman but I can’t divulge the name at present. He will nominate the members. They will have to understand football but the main object is to restore credibility. I put forward this proposal in January. “<\/p>\n

Blatter said he could not explain why the relationship between himself and Bin Hammam, the 62-year-old Qatari who helped first become FIFA president in 1998, had broken down.<\/p>\n

He said: “We had a really good relationship and he supported my election in 1998. We worked together but I wouldn’t say it was a friendship.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know why Bin Hammam suddenly became so aggressive.<\/p>\n

“On the executive committee he repeatedly said he’d never stand against me, but that’s what’s happened.<\/p>\n

“Right up to the end I didn’t think he’d stand.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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