Ginola paid to contest FIFA poll
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DAVID Ginola’s unlikely bid for the FIFA presidency was exposed as little more than a publicity stunt when a bookmaking firm said it had paid the former France winger 250,000 pounds (US$380,000) to stand.
“This campaign is all about transparency and we are paying David 250,000 pounds for the campaign and for being here today,” a spokesman for Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said. “It is his full-time job now and, hopefully, will be for the next four months.”
Ginola demonstrated little apparent understanding of the world of FIFA politics.
“I am here today to talk about love,” he said. “And to share some of the most powerful emotions all of us have experienced because that’s what football means to me, you and the billions of fans spread all over the planet. But we are so disappointed when we talk about the problems in football now, problems with the way our game is being run. I think it is time we changed that and to reboot football.”
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