Cefarin joins Dutchman Michael van Praag in declaring his intention to stand for September election to replace Michael Platini, banned for four years by FIFA for ethics violations.
The statement said that Cefarin had been given the backing of the federations of Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Cyprus, Montenegro, Russia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey at a meeting in Russia on Wednesday.
It said Italy and the four Nordic countries would also support him.
(Reporting by Brian Homewood; additional reporting by Zoran Milosavljevic in Belgarde; editing by Martyn Herman)
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