FIFA: "I know Jérôme Champagne, I worked with him, I can trust him" (Pelé)

"One of the candidates is Jérôme Champagne who worked with me at a time. I know him. I worked with him. I can trust him," said the Brazilian Pelé to the website GloboEsporte.com on 16/02/2016, about the election for the presidency of FIFA, scheduled in Zurich (SUI) on 26/02/2016.

Along with the Frenchman Jérôme Champagne, four other candidates are seeking to replace Joseph Blatter, president since 08/06/1998, but suspended from any activity in football since 08/10/2015: Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (Jordan), Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (Bahrain), Gianni Infantino (Switzerland) and Tokyo Sexwale (South Africa).

"Pelé and I met for the first time in 1996 when he was the Extraordinary Minister for Sports in Brazil and when I was the n°3 at the French Embassy in Brasilia. Since then, we have been regularly working together during my FIFA years, in particular to support the organisation in Africa of the 1^st World Cup and since 2010 as well," said Jérôme Champagne, on 17/02/2016.

Pelé, three-time winner of the World Cup (1958, 1962 and 1970), had already supported Jérôme Champagne…