In FIFA presidential elections marked by a corruption scandal, Mohamed bin Hammam hugged Sepp Blatter on Thursday, then attacked the campaign.
The contest for the top job in soccer turned increasingly hostile to the day after the Bin Hammam was accused by the governing body of voters on the Caribbean lubricated.
The Qatar challenger flew to Zurich for a meeting of FIFA finances and facing the opponent suspecting that designed to wreck his chances in the vote on Wednesday 208 football Nations. The big embrace, witnessed by a few select the inner circle of FIFA, disguised deeper passions.
Hours later, bin Hammam issued a statement urging the same Ethics Committee that is investigating the FIFA to examine also the Blatter violation of code of conduct.
Meanwhile, Blatter spoke to their opponent's "public humiliation" in his regular column for a campaign of football Web site. Denied conspiring to remove the former ally of the ballot.
Finally, the spectacle prompted condemnation from a dysfunctional Grand Sponsor who helps bankroll Football billion dollars annual income. Sporting goods company Adidas, a backer higher class than the 1970s, lamented the negative Tenor of FIFA.
Agency increasingly unreliable ruling football already has eight of the Executive Committee of the 24-man under investigation. Blatter would be the ninth if Bin Hammam, the conduct of business held before a hearing in Zurich on Sunday.
Bin Hammam has been invited along with his boss Jack Warner, fellow Confederation a FIFA Vice-president, for allegedly offering bribes to 25 Caribbean soccer leaders on a trip campaign 10 and 11 may in Trinidad native Warner.
While rejecting allegations of corruption, bin Hammam said evidence showed FIFA's Blatter broke the code of conduct is not an attempt to reference an apparent corruption.
"Categories also contain statements that Mr Blatter, the FIFA President was, but did not oppose alleged payments to members of the Caribbean Football Union," bin Hammam said in a statement.
Bin Hammam insisted the scandal is a "plan to damage" and, like Warner, has questioned the timing.
Blatter wrote that "he" was by corruption claims against Bin Hammam to shed light on a "very bad FIFA again."
"This gives me no pleasure to see him suffer a public disgrace, even before it had begun an investigation," Blatter said in a column for inside the tennis world. Now assume that ... This whole issue was somehow masterminded by me is absurd and totally reprehensible. "
The election rivals met briefly Thursday — the first meeting on 1 may in Paraguay — the Forum main Committee of FIFA, according to Senior Vice President, Julio Grondona.
"They hugged in the Chamber. There was no problem, "said the President of the Argentine economic table.
The conduct may, in fact, the hand victory to Blatter suspended from all football bin Hammam. The Panel could rule was temporarily or wrongdoing that could bar bin Hammam, if the requested more time to study the evidence compiled by a Federal Prosecutor from Chicago who works for a regional organization of CONCACAF's Warner Footballrepresenting North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Blatter expressed his admiration for the American Government official Chuck "citizen courage rally. Rymoylkithike joined the FIFA ruling alongside Bin Hammam before 15 years and had the closest regional ally of Warner for even longer.
FIFA unrest underrun extended to CONCACAF's home city of New York. Manhattan lawyer Burton Haimes strengthened beyond the ethics of FIFA, citing a conflict of interests by its long-term relationship with rymoylkithike and Warner.
Ethics Chair Claudio Sulser recused himself Wednesday as shares Swiss nationality with Blatter. The former international player passed sentences last November FIFA executive members Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii. The three-pointed prohibitions and one year respectively after an investigation into vote-selling World Cup. Sunday's hearing will be chaired by the Deputy Judge Sulser Petrus Damaseb, Namibia.
Blatter, who joined FIFA in 1975 and was President for 13 years, recognises that FIFA has helped to create this atmosphere of painful.
The Swiss 75-year-old pledged to "open the doors, strengthening dialogue, improving our corporate governance and our public affairs to handle the type of the priority it deserves" If that takes a fourth and final term of Office of four years.
Adidas, which is in talks to extend back beyond the 2014 FIFA World Cup, seem to expect nothing less. This describes the FIFA matters, such as "neither good for the sport of football and FIFA as an institution and its partners."
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