FIFA President Joseph S Blatter believes that the Asian Football Federation (AFC) should amend its statutes to ensure the AFC President is automatically made FIFA Vice President.
“What we have to do is to make sure that all presidents of confederations are members of the FIFA Executive Committee in the position of vice president,” Blatter told journalists after the 23rd AFC Congress.
Currently, AFC's representative as FIFA Vice President is Korea Republic's Chung Mong-joon. Also sitting on the FIFA executive from Asia is AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam, who was re-elected to his seat on Friday, Thailand's Worawi Makudi and Japan's Junji Ogura.
AFC is in the process of changing its statutes so that the AFC President is also FIFA Vice President.
It was due to be written into the statutes at Friday's Congress but Bin Hammam referred it to the newly constituted Legal Ad Hoc Committee for review.
Added Blatter: “Whoever is president of FIFA, it is better for him to have vice presidents as heads of confederations. It is easier to work together and better for the good of the game.”
So far, AFC and the Latin American confederation are the only continental bodies that do not apply this principle.
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