Blatter pledges reform but blasts critics

FIFA has been scarred by allegations surrounding the process to choose the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, won by Russia and Qatar respectively.

Blatter said he was ready to confront the past if successful in the June 1 vote, when Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam is standing against him, but he also said FIFA was a victim of its own success since he became president in 1998.

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