Blatter told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung the committee would consist of seven
to nine members"not only from sport but from politics, finance, business and culture".
FIFA's electoral commission must now validate
or refuse, within approximately ten days, the candidates eligible to challenge the long-serving Blatter at the May 29 elections.
In a debate at Oxford Union in October 2013,
when asked whether FIFA president Sepp Blatter preferred Messi or Ronaldo, Blatter paid tribute to the work ethic of the Argentine before
taking a swipe at Ronaldo, claiming“one of them has more expenses for the hairdresser than the other”.