--- title: Prince Ali of Jordan Will Run for President of FIFA Again description: The 39-year-old lost the previous election to Sepp Blatter, who resigned in early June canonical: https://time.com/4028840/prince-ali-jordan-fifa-election-second-bid-sepp-blatter/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T04:13:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:57:52.863Z article:section: Sports og:title: Prince Ali of Jordan Will Run for FIFA President Again og:description: He pledged to reform soccer's scandal-plagued world governing body. og:url: https://time.com/4028840/prince-ali-jordan-fifa-election-second-bid-sepp-blatter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt650bf3188bbb8278/698862fc2dce01f6ff9e5723/rtscoq.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2333 og:image:height: 1312 og:image:alt: Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan speaks at the Roman Amphitheatre area in Amman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Prince Ali of Jordan Will Run for FIFA President Again twitter:description: He pledged to reform soccer's scandal-plagued world governing body. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt650bf3188bbb8278/698862fc2dce01f6ff9e5723/rtscoq.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Prince Ali of Jordan Says He Will Run for President of FIFA Again > Sponsored content. 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Ex-FIFA official Jack Warner committed an Internet faux pas when defending himself from corruption charges — he cited The Onion as a real news source._ by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 10, 2015 4:13 AM UTC  Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan speaks at the Roman Amphitheatre area in downtown Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 9, 2015 Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan speaks at the Roman Amphitheatre area in downtown Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 9, 2015 Muhammad Hamed—Reuters by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Sep 10, 2015 4:13 AM UTC Jordan’s Prince Ali bin al-Hussein will make a [second consecutive bid](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/09/us-soccer-fifa-ali-idUSKCN0R91VW20150909) to become president of world soccer governing body FIFA, announcing his candidacy for next year’s election on Wednesday. The 39-year-old revealed he would run for the post again at a speech in the Jordanian capital Amman, Reuters reported. “Let me be clear,” he said. “I want to finish what we started.” Ali was defeated in May by incumbent president Sepp Blatter, who won his fifth consecutive term as head of the scandal-plagued organization. Blatter [resigned](http://time.com/3905860/sepp-blatter-fifa-president-resigns/) soon afterward as a massive corruption probe implicated several top FIFA officials. Blatter said he resigned in order to “protect FIFA” but has [insisted](http://time.com/4009308/sepp-blatter-corruption-investigation-fifa-soccer-football/) that he himself is “clean.” Ali said his agenda will focus on reforming the sporting body and ensuring that corruption is rooted out. “It is only through new leadership that FIFA can change I do not believe that FIFA can give this sport back to the people of the world without new leadership, untainted by the practices of the past,” he said. Ali, who lost the last election to Blatter by a margin of 133-73, now finds himself up against European soccer chief and former ally [Michel Platini](http://time.com/3965344/fifa-election-michel-platini-support-uefa/) — who he dismissed as being a “Blatter protégé” — and South Korean billionaire and FIFA’s honorary vice president [Chung Mong-joon](http://time.com/3979709/fifa-president-chung-mong-joon-hyundai/). “The important thing is to have a new beginning and to have new ideas and therefore any candidate who has been in the organization for a long time is not what is needed at this time,” the Jordanian royal explained. Liberia’s Musa Bility, former Trinidad and Tobago player David Nakhid and retired Brazilian soccer star Zico have also declared their candidacy for the upcoming election, slated for Feb. 26, 2016. **Read next:** [These Are the 5 Facts That Explain the FIFA Scandal](http://time.com/3910054/fifa-scandal-sepp-blatter/) ## Transcript You see this green logo? That belongs to, the Onion. A satirical news website which, and this is important, doesn't report actual news. So when you post a YouTube video defending yourself from corruption and conspiracy charges, it's not a good idea to site one of the Onion's fake stories. If the FIFA is so bad, why is it The USA wants to keep [ UNKNOWN ]. Why is it that we've got games on May 27th? That was former FIFA executive and Trinidad Trego politician, Jack Warner, who is currently facing an indictment along with 13 others Executives connected to FIFA. The US Department of Justice accuses those defendants of racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering conspiracies, among other offenses. To combat the charges, Warner cited this Onion article titled FIFA Frantically announces 2015 Summer World Cup in United States, as evidence of US hypocrisy. The article goes on to report, the next World Cup logo will be, a hand- drawn stick figure, kicking a soccer ball with USA 2015, hastily scribbled in black marker, above its head. Seems legit, right? Yeah, the article in question was lampooning FIFA more than the US. The Onion, has been having a field day with corruption case at FIFA's expense. After the mistake was noted, and mocked online, Warner's video was briefly taken down, and then reposted with all mentions of, The Onion, scrubbed. 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