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Blatter still favourite

REUTERS, Seoul
Sepp Blatter looks set to secure a second term as FIFA president despite increasingly antagonistic and vociferous opposition to his style of leadership.
Blatter, facing a court case and critics who accuse him of leading soccer's governing body into financial crisis, is running against Cameroonian Issa Hayatou, 55-year-old president of the Confederation of African Soccer (CAF).
Hayatou believes his support is still growing, even at this late stage, but it may be too little, too late.
"I am very confident that I will be given a second mandate tomorrow because more than 100 associations asked me to stand for reelection," Blatter told reporters after a stormy special congress on FIFA's finances on Tuesday.
The 66-year-old Swiss veteran can bank on the support of many of FIFA's smaller national federations, who believe he will deliver solid financial support for them and who dismiss his critics as jealous rivals.
"We will see tomorrow whether my path will lead me to fulfil my work of the last 27 years with FIFA, not just the last four years as president." In Tuesday's extraordinary congress, Blatter refused to let many of his opponents speak. He was booed and jeered when he closed the meeting and Hayatou angrily gestured in his face. But overall, there were more cheers than jeers for Blatter and this bodes well for his chances when the 204 member associations vote on Wednesday on whether to grant him four more years as the most powerful man in soccer.
Blatter has consistently denied wrongdoing but five of FIFA's seven vice-presidents, including UEFA president Lennart Johansson who lost the 1998 election to Blatter, have taken their case against him to the Swiss courts.
To add to Blatter's troubles, his working relationship with Michel Zen-Ruffinen, FIFA's general secretary and its most senior paid official, has totally broken down.
Zen-Ruffinen refused to officiate at Tuesday's extraordinary congress, saying he could not be held personally liable for the financial
report as documents relating to it had been withheld from him for
months.
Zen-Ruffinen was the author of a
300-page document now with the
Swiss court in which he highlighted Blatter's alleged mismanagement of
FIFA.
The court still has to decide whether to prosecute, but Zen-Ruffinen will lose his job if Blatter keeps his on Wednesday.
Julio Grondona of Argentina, a staunch Blatter ally and FIFA's senior vice-president, predicted changes if Blatter wins.
"After president Blatter is reelected on Wednesday, you will see a big change in FIFA," he told reporters.
"There will be no more lack of unity as a number of those people opposed to him now will no longer be in the executive committee, which in the future will support the president.
"We have shown with the financial report today there is no abuse of funds."
In a thinly veiled reference to Zen-Ruffinen, he added:
"A different view from some people could change the administrative situation of FIFA too."
Glenn Kirton, head of Hayatou's campaign team, told Reuters: "As more and more people have become aware of what the real situation is at FIFA, more and more are siding with Mr Hayatou. We believe we now have more than 100 votes.
"I believe there could be a lot of abstentions in the first round of voting as people see where the support lies.
"These votes could then be decisive second time around. I think it is going to be a lot closer than many people believe."
Johansson, one of Blatter's fiercest critics said: "We have to stay a bit more calm tomorrow because what we had today was not good. I had never heard jeers before at a FIFA congress."
Whoever wins, one thing is sure -- the president of FIFA over the next four years will have a massive job on his hands rebuilding unity.