Dutch FA chairman a candidate for Uefa top job
Dutch football association chief Michael van Praag is a formal candidate to succeed Michel Platini as chairman of European football body Uefa.
Uefa will choose a replacement for Platini at a special session on September 14 in Athens.
Uefa secretary general Theodore Theodoridis told reporters at a press conference in Basel on Wednesday that Van Praag has put himself forward. However, the Uefa board has not reached a unanimous agreement on there being a single candidate, he said.
Van Praag, 68, is one of Uefa’s five deputy chairman. Angel Maria Villar from the Spanish FA is likely to be his main competitor, football insiders say. According to news agency AP, Slovenian federation president Aleksander Ceferin is also a candidate.
Corruption
Platini was suspended in October 2015 by Fifa’s ethics committee.
The new president will complete Platini’s term, which runs to March 2019, and become a Fifa vice president.
Van Praag was also a candidate to succeed Fifa president Sepp Blatter on a strong anti-corruption ticket last year but withdrew to support Jordanian prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein.
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