FIFA president Sepp Blatter gestures during a news conferece after the Swiss women's soccer A team qualifyed for the FIFA Women's World Cup, in Luzern March 27, 2015. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
NASSAU, Bahamas, Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter will have to work for the votes of the 25 Caribbean football associations after the region's union head said they would break with their normal practice of voting as a block.
Antiguan Gordon Derrick, president of the Caribbean Football Union which has 25 votes in FIFA’s presidential election next month, said there would be no mandate from the body, long a Blatter stronghold, to vote for any one candidate.
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