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Maradona to run for FIFA presidency: report (Reuters)

Yahoo! Sports | June 22, 2015

Related Topics: Diego Maradona, FIFA, Sepp Blatter, Victor Hugo, Nicolás Maduro

(Reuters) - Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has decided to stand as a candidate for the FIFA presidency to replace Sepp Blatter, Uruguayan journalist and author Victor Hugo Morales has said.

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Morales said Maradona had told him of his intention when he called the former coach of the Argentina national team to check on the condition of his sick father on Sunday.

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