{"id":24509,"date":"2013-02-10T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/blatter-wants-fifa-term-extended\/"},"modified":"2013-02-10T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T18:03:52","slug":"blatter-wants-fifa-term-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/10\/blatter-wants-fifa-term-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatter wants FIFA term extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>\u201cIf he has done a good job, he stops (after eight years), if he has done a very good job, he can go four more years,\u201d the 76-year-old told a media briefing ahead of Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_140540\" class=\"wp-caption alignright c15\" readability=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/03\/i-have-not-finished-my-work-with-fifa-says-blatter\/blatter-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-140540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-140540\" alt=\" FIFA President Sepp Blatter\" src=\"http:\/\/vml1.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blatter.jpg?cb5e28\" width=\"210\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIFA President Sepp Blatter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Blatter, who took over the FIFA presidency in 1998, did not rule out standing for another term in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t ask me what happens in 2015,\u201d Blatter said when asked if he would stand again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say that I will fight for my Fifa. But I will have to stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know when I will stop. I have said it\u2019s my last mandate. I have said it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blatter, whose reign has often been clouded by allegations of corruption, was the driving force behind South Africa hosting the 2010 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Spain were crowned world champions at Soweto\u2019s Soccer City stadium, the venue for Sunday\u2019s 2013 Nations Cup final between Nigeria and Burkina Faso.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf he has done a good job, he stops (after eight years), if he has done a very good job, he can go four more years,\u201d the 76-year-old told a media briefing ahead of Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final. FIFA President Sepp Blatter Blatter, who took over the FIFA presidency in 1998, did not rule out standing for another term in 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}