South Korean Chung Mong Joon Chances Of Running For FIFA Presidency Next Year Dim As Swiss Court Denies To Lift Six-Year Ban

FIFA's world governing body announced earlier this month that they have decided to ban former FIFA vice president Chung Mong Joon for six years after allegedly writing to FIFA executive members in 2010 on forming the Global Football Fund as South Korea plans to bid for the World Cups in 2018 or 2022.

Aside from that, Chung is also fined 100,000 Swiss francs and will not be allowed to engage in any football activities both on national and international levels.

After the decision, the presidential hopeful appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) to life the ban against him. Chung says the decision made by the governing body was a "shameful attempt" to rebuke his criticism on FIFA, as noted by CBC Sports on Oct. 9.

Meanwhile, Chung's plea to lift the six-year ban against him was denied by a Swiss court on Tuesday, which means that the South Korean has a slim chance to bid for the presidential post since the deadline of the registration is already on October 26, Yonhap News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Chung says in a dispatch that FIFA has not given him concrete reasons for the six-year ban. He adds that "the Swiss court rejected my petition on the grounds that without the reasoned decision, it has no grounds to make a decision."

"I am in a double bind: I cannot maintain my candidacy because of the unjust sanctions, but I cannot appeal those sanctions or get an injunction from the Swiss court because I do not have the reasoned decision that FIFA's Ethics Committee has so far refused to send me," he says.

"In the meantime, the time for me to register as a candidate is fast running out. FIFA continues to sabotage my candidacy for FIFA president."

Chung adds that the integrity of the election for the post had been "seriously undermined" with the meddling of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and his associates.