Football will suffer if Sepp Blatter is re-elected as FIFA President on Sunday, says UEFA chief Michel Platini.
Members of the Bermuda Football Association will vote for either Blatter or Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, while the Bermuda Football Association President Larry Mussenden is the Chairman of the Committee that will oversee the Elections.
Blatter, 79, is favorite to win a fifth four-year term after saying in 2011 he would step down.
"While he remains in place, whether he likes it or not, and whether it is fair or not, FIFA will lack credibility and its image will be tarnished, and so it will lack authority," said Platini.
"Moreover, it will be football that suffers."
Platini has pledged his support for Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan in the election in Zurich.
"I would never attack (Blatter), but after a while you cannot simply hold on to the throne at any cost," Platini told French newspaper L'Equipe.
The 59-year-old Frenchman said that having Blatter as a figurehead damages Fifa's reputation after alleged abuse of position and power by ex-Fifa executive committee members, though claims of wrongdoing were denied.
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