AFP - Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar completed its campaign to force Sepp Blatter for the Presidency of FIFA Sunday, only hours before facing the Ethics Committee of world football guardianship over allegations of corruption.
On his blog, bin Hammam, 61, who launched his campaign on a platform of struggle against corruption and a bitter war of words with the long-standing service Blatter, said he was withdrawing from the reputation of FIFA.
He said "I made the decision to run for President of FIFA because I was and is committed to change in the FIFA".
"However, recent events have left me to hurt and disappointed - on professional and personal," bin Hammam, currently head of the Asian Football Confederation, said.
"It saddens me that stand up for the causes that I thought came at a great price - the degradation of the reputation of FIFA." "It is not what I had in mind for FIFA and this situation is unacceptable."
"It is for this reason that I am announcing my withdrawal from the presidential election," he said.
He did not want its decision related to the investigation by the Ethics Committee of FIFA, he added, promising to erase his name from the "unfounded allegations" against him in his appearance before the Committee.
Statement of bin Hammam was the latest dramatic twist in the battle for the high use of football, in which he himself made allegations of corruption against his rival, aged 75 years Blatter.
The two men were due to face off the coast in an election June 1 for control of world football.
Bin Hammam, Vice-President of the FIFA Jack Warner of Trinidad and two other Caribbean Football Union (CFU) are due to be questioned by the FIFA Ethics Committee later Sunday on allegations of corruption.
They deny any wrongdoing and Warner has promised "a tsunami of football" of revelations concerning FIFA within days to the.
On Thursday, bin Hammam dismissed the charges against him as "completely false" and an "unwelcome manoeuvre" to block his candidacy for the Presidency of FIFA.
He also called for the investigation be expanded to include Blatter.
The Committee convenes the head of FIFA asked him claims he knew bribes of cash alleged to the centre of the probe in bin Hammam.
In a brief statement issued Friday, Blatter said: "I cannot comment on the procedures that have been opened against me today." Will be the facts speak for themselves. ?
He had already dismissed as "ridiculous" suggestions that he had orchestrated the charges laid against the man who is seeking to unseat.
Bin Hammam and Warner have been targeted after Chuck Blazer, General Secretary of the Organization Regional CONCACAF football, reported possible wrongdoing during a May 10 and 11 meeting in Trinidad.
The British media said bin Hammam and Warner are accused of offering gifts of cash of $40 000 to national associations at the Trinidad conference in exchange for their votes in the presidential election next week.
Bin Hammam was not always enemy of Blatter. In 1998, he supported Blatter in his success for the Presidency of FIFA.
FIFA came under a storm of criticism in recent months after the decision to grant the 2018 World Cup to the Russia and the Qatar 2022 tournament.
British politicians and the English Football Association expressed outrage after the failure of England to win the 2018 bid.
Later, a British parliamentary inquiry heard testimony from former FA Chairman David Triesman, alleging the FIFA voters had demanded corrupts, and favors in the competition for the World Cup bids.
Qatari Bin Hammam has launched his candidacy for the Presidency of FIFA in the wake of the submission of his country for 2022 a surprise success that has also generated controversy.
The Qatari Committee who has orchestrated the bid Monday issued a statement denying allegations in the newspaper Sunday Times of Britain that they had used methods corrupt for win their prize.
In his campaign for the leadership of FIFA, bin Hammam has promised to bring more transparency to the operation of the organization.
In his message posted Sunday at the beginning, he wrote: "I believe that my candidacy has been a catalyst for debate within FIFA and has made changes to the top of the agenda."
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