FIFA: The Korean tycoon Cheng confirmed his candidacy for president

South Korean tycoon Hyundai Group, Chung Mong-Joon, who was vice president of FIFA from 1994 to 2011, confirmed on Thursday (06/08) in Seoul to present his candidacy for president of the international football body. This businessman and politician, who already announced in late July his intention to run, said this Thursday in a press conference to officially announce his candidacy on the 17th in Paris.

The former vice president of FIFA, Chung Mong-joon, during a press conference in Seoul on June 3, 2015. Chung Mong-joon will run for president of the parent company of world football (Photo: AFP / File)

Chung Mong-joon , South Korea's Hyundai Group tycoon who was vice president of FIFA from 1994 to 2011, confirmed on Thursday (06/08) in Seoul to present his candidacy for president of the motherhouse in world football.

Previously he travels to Georgia, where the August 11 final of the UEFA Super Cup will be played, to meet with leaders of European football and possibly its expected rival, the current UEFA president Michel Platini.

In the election, Chung will face in principle to Platini and the Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein .

"I think Platini and I are the leading candidates and have high chances to win" , said this Thursday the South Korean candidate.

"I have always worked for the interest of football and FIFA," Chung, who claimed to have been against the policies of President questioned said Joseph Blatter during his time as number two. 

The sixth son of Chung Ju-yung , founder of Hyundai, Group and a major shareholder of the powerful conglomerate chaired for 17 years until 2009, the Korea Football Association (KFA) and was a member of the Parliament of South Korea, plus candidate for mayor of Seoul.

During that period contributed to the 2002 World Cup was hosted jointly by South Korea and Japan. 

In 2011 he lost the vote to renew his post as FIFA vice-president for Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein.

The president of the Football Association had stressed that his country had not requested the support of five of the federations governing body of world football's governing that would allow occur, but hoped to do so confessed that "I hope to have more than five nominations" , adding that he had received confirmations of support from the CONCACAF.

Blatter was forced to resign on June 2 to the presidency of the highest governing body of world football, due to corruption scandal, in which 14 leaders were charged with money laundering and bribery only four days after being re-elected for a fifth term. "President Blatter is like a cannibal who eats his parents and complains about being an orphan. Trying to blame the other, except him, " he lamented.

In 2002, South Korea was one of the most notorious opponents of Joseph Blatter, supporting the Cameroonian Issa Hayatou and accusing the president of FIFA embezzlement. 

The election to the presidency of FIFA will take place in an elective congress February 26, 2016 in Zurich, and candidates must apply four months earlier. Many other football personalities declared their intention to stand for the presidency: former Brazilian international Zico, Jordanian Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, the only candidate against Blatter in May, and the president of the Liberian Federation, Musa Bility .