Franz Beckenbauer has backed Tokyo Sexwale as a possible candidate for the FIFA presidency to succeed Sepp Blatter and said the South African can expect support from the German FA.
Speaking at the annual Camp Beckenbauer sports conference in Kitzbuehel, Austria, ‘the Kaiser’ said the German Football Association (DFB) know “about the quality of the South Africans and the quality of Tokyo Sexwale”.
“I certainly believe that the German Football Association would support his candidacy,” added Beckenbauer, a former FIFA executive committee member, who is still influential.
“What is to blameIJ Is it the peopleIJ Of course. Or the systemIJ That’s also possible,” said the German.
“At some point there will be the oportunity to appoint a president from an external source — someone from economics, someone from politics.’’