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This morning, former FIFA adviser Jerome Champagne announced his candidature for the presidency of football's world governing body.
As yet it is unclear whether incumbent and former Champagne ally Sepp Blatter will run for the FIFA presidency or if UEFA President Michel Platini will make a move for the 2015 elections.
But Champagne's decision to run are the first true shots of a battle that is likely to get messy.
But can the man who served stints as Deputy General Secretary and Director of International Relations realistically become FIFA president?
We spoke to James Montague of the New York Times who attended the press conference and he sees the Pele-backed Champagne as an "outsider candidate".
"If you look at the manifestos that Champagne put out, it's a very globalist idea of football. He wants the federations to have the power and the FIFA congress to have the power. He wants to have a greater redistribution of wealth in football which obviously means he's painted as a Robin Hood kind of thing in terms of taking from the rich and giving to the poor."
Other proposals included televised debates for FIFA presidential elections, sin bins and an orange card.
Yet, Montague believes Champagne's agenda is similar to Blatter's and perhaps the Frenchman's decision to stand is an "educated guess" that 77-year-old Blatter may choose to step aside at last.
Indeed, Champagne claimed he could not win the election if Blatter runs, describing him as a "person of relevance".
But is he a trojan horse of sorts to "smoke out" other potential candidates for Blatter?
"I don't think any of that is the case," said Montague. "He's got to find five federations to back him. There is a question mark over that. A lot of people are saying that he has been out of FIFA for a long while and remember he was fired by Blatter in 2010. I don't think it's a case that he is close to him in that respect."
But Montague reckons that Champagne still has contacts bubbling within FIFA's walls as they would have been useful in his recent roles as a football consultant for the Kosovan and Palestinian football federations.
