Former Argentina number 10 and manager, Diego Maradona has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president when the disgraced Swiss administrator steps down before a new election. The 54-year-old has been a fierce critic of Blatter and FIFA and will now look to lead the reform at the head of football’s governing body.

Uruguayan journalist and close-friend of Maradona, Víctor Hugo Morales announced Diego’s intentions when he tweeted:

Llamé a Diego Maradona para ver cómo estaba su papá. Me contó que iba a ser candidato a presidente de la FIFA y me autorizó a comunicarlo.

— Víctor Hugo Morales (@vh590) June 22, 2015

In English, it reads, “I called Diego Maradona to see how his father was. He told me that he would be a candidate for the FIFA presidency and authorized me to communicate this.”

FIFA have been enbroiled in scandal since seven high-ranking officials in Zurich were arrested for reportedly receiving close to $150 million in bribes. This has since spread to almost the entire organisation but did not prevent Blatter from initially winning an eighth term as president only to resign some days later and lead to another election to be held later in the year.

Maradona has criticized Blatter and his cronies long before the FBI led indictment and was vocal during the World Cup over FIFA’s decision to charge Haiti $2 million for World Cup rights while the country still struggled in the aftermath of the earthquake in 2010.

Finding support for Maradona’s presidential bid might be tricky as he would not seem the most logical choice to systemically clean a football system entrenched in corruption. The now deceased president of the AFA, Julio Grondona is hugely implicated in the cases of bribery and Maradona has said that “this is no surprise to me. I knew that already.”

His accusations stretch back to Grondona’s involvement in reaching but losing in the World Cup Final in 1990 but that did not prevent Maradona from accepting Grondona’s approach to be named Argentina manager in 2008. This he maintains was not for money but simply for his love of the national team and while that is probably true, it is a little late to be calling out Julio Grondona now.