Race to succeed Blatter is 'poker' game - FIFA executive member


The empty seat of FIFA President Sepp Blatter is pictured before a news conference after the Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland July 20, 2015. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) - The race to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president is like a "poker game", long-serving FIFA executive committee member Michel d’Hooghe said on Monday.

"A poker game is currently being played. I think there will be a number of candidates, one from Europe," Belgian D'Hooghe told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

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