Hi Alex. I'm feeling how difficult and complicated for authorities to deal with transparency, watching recent political issues such as WikiLeaks controversy and secretive Japanese authorities about nuclear crisis. Surely human has always just cause and ulterior motive, not all things necessarily ought to be open to public, but we public have a right to know behind the scenes as needed. Of course the road to election day would also have a lot of behind the scene, we'll see how sufficient they could bring transparency on that.

Blatter must go. Thats indisputable. Its time for a much needed change. Whether Bin Hamman is the man is impossible to say like it was when Blatter was elected. Personally feel any change away from the Blatter regime will be an improvement. From what I have heard and read I believe Bin Hamman could be a good choice for president and hope he will be given a fair go

Mr. Bin Hammam approach to the subject is very good and I believe by pursuing in this direction, he could actually be the Man the FiFa has been looking for.

He has a chance to change FIFA, the Fifa is not a kingdom and Mr. Blatter should stepdown.

Kind Regards,
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So, let me get this straight....

The guy in charge of the Qatari WC bid, that won under dubious conditions and charges of quid-pro-quo vote fixing, is now running for FIFA president.

And, we're being told in the story, that Platini will back him for president now, as long as Bin Hamman backs Platini for president in 2015.

Platini is the same guy that bent over backwards to justify the rationale for selecting Qatar, including proposing having the WC in the winter.

You're right! This is totally transparent. In the sense that FIFA's vote fixing, back-scratching, corrupt executives are trading in their chips. And their are doing so right in the public eye, without a care in the world.

The only thing missing is to have that WC referee from Mali, made the head of the FIFA rules committee.

This is the man who wants to kick the Phoenix out of the A League. It will be a terrible day for NZ if he got in. Anyone but him.

We football fans are all keen to see the back of Sepp Blatter, that is certain. However we must be cautious about the 'anyone will be better than Blatter' approach. In our haste to eject the imbecilic Blatter, we could end up with someone worse. What other candidates are there? Where do they stand on video replay? goal line technology? microchip tracking devices in balls?

I believe that given the global impact of FIFA decisions we need to have a FIFA president from a highly proven and "football" developed region of the world namely: Europe or Latin America. Never mind opening up to the rest of the world, etc. FIFA needs to follow the lead of the trends coming out of the areas with the most developed football sense and NOT from areas where crazy new ideas could be more beneficial to their own purposes rather than those of the areas of critical mass. In this sense perhaps UEFA is better positioned to determine policy for FIFA as a whole.

Bin Hamman was in charge of the Qatari WC bid, that won under dubious conditions and charges of vote fixing, is now running for FIFA president. He made a deal wth platini another corrupt official.

As for Bin Hammam he bribed many players and federations for the Qater world cup. he is probably the worse than blatter ., also what has he proposed, nothing so far.

Platini is the same guy that bent over backwards to justify the rationale for selecting Qatar, including proposing having the WC in the winter.

blatter needs to go, I hope other fifa members dont support platini cuz his worse than blater, platini does not even want video technology in the game blatter at least has said he will consider.

Grant wahl is the best choice , his proposals of video replays is needed in football, we need more representation from women. for Football to grow Fifa has to consider bring more women into the fold. Also his proposal of goal technology and not giving yellow cards for players removing their shirts is good. ,here more important and worse things than players removing shirts.

I hope Grant Wahl wins

Indonesian football association chief was a criminal. (convicted twice) However, Bin Hamman allowed him to run the organization from behind bars. Rumors has it that Bin Hamman protected the man, so that he can get the necessary vote for the last AFC election.

I would like to see Bin Hamman explaining that one.

So much for the transparency.

Hey, no one is sure he ll ever change FIFA if elected! I guess any candidate who was in favour of Blatter in the past should only contest after 2015! What kind of transparency is needed? No one ever raised an eyebrow in the past during the host country selection processes. Bin Hamman will not deliver the much needed reforms, infact there is no one more credible than Blatter at this stage. A bird in hand, they say is worth two in the Bush!