He was elected to the FIFA executive on a platform of greater transparency in the wake of corruption scandals which saw one of his predecessors in the vice president role, Qatari MohamedBinHammam, banned for life on bribery charges.
The former colleagues fell out in 2011 when Blazer reported Warner and Asian Football Confederation chief MohamedbinHammam to FIFA's Ethics Committee, accusing the duo of trying to bribe Caribbean delegated to support the Qatari binHammam in that year's FIFA presidential election.