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Johansson, 82, who was UEFA's president for 17 years and a former FIFA vice-president, fought and lost a bitter 1998 FIFA presidential election to Blatter, who has remained in power ever since.
Blatter, who will be 76 next month, secured a fourth term unopposed last year and has said he will retire in 2015.
However the Swede told the BBC's World Service: "It cannot be that only one man should be dictating and taking all the decisions about world football.
"There is not much more to do than to get rid of the man in question."
"He is, to me, closer to what I was looking for," Johansson explained.
"He has tried to be fair, he's open-minded, he allows discussions and he obeys decisions made by the majority."
