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Turkey coach Guus Hiddink has said that he will tender his resignation if his side fail to beat Austria and Belgium in their next two Euro 2012 qualifying games.

Hiddink’s side currently lie third in Group A – behind runaway leaders Germany and Austria – and suffered a shock 1-0 defeat in Azerbaijan in their last game. Now, the Dutch boss has alerted Europe’s top club teams – including his former club Chelsea – with the news that he could quit if Turkey do not take six points from their next two.

”I’m trying to make a better Turkish national team,” Hiddink said. ”If I can’t do that, I’ll ask the chairman to sack me. Six points from these two games is vital. If we don’t get that I can offer my resignation to the chairman and then it’s up to him. It will mean that I am not a successful manager.”

Hiddink was an enormously popular figure at Chelsea during his six months in charge, as he led the Blues to the FA Cup in 2009. With Carlo Ancelotti’s job up for review in the summer, many would suggest Hiddink is a shoo-in to take over from the Italian, should both men find themselves without a job in the next few months.

Hiddink is close to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, after the Blues chief played a big part in luring him to the Russian national job in 2006, and another option is that he could be offered a directorial role with Frank Arnesen’s exit to Hamburg already confirmed this summer.

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter says his next term will be his last if he is re-elected as head of world football’s governing body in June.

Blatter is running for his fourth term but is facing the challenge of Qatar’s Mohamed bin Hammam in the election to be held in Zurich, Switzerland.

Speaking at UEFA’s Congress in Paris on Tuesday the 75-year-old Swiss said that if he wins he will definitely stand down in 2015.

Blatter said: “You know very well that I am a candidate for the next four years as FIFA president but these will be the last four years for which I stand as a candidate.

“Together we have the task of bringing together the adventure we have started. We want to ensure a better future for our youth.”

Blatter’s announcement appears to be a direct appeal to the 53 European countries to support him and then he will make way for UEFA president Michel Platini in 2015.

Bin Hammam revealed on Monday he would be interested in cutting a deal with Platini to oust Blatter – but the Qatari would certainly want eight years in office.

Blatter told the Congress that FIFA would now have “zero tolerance” for corruption – two FIFA executive committee members were banned last year after asking for money in return for votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting rights.

He said: “We can see cases of corruption that really hurt the whole football family and for this reason at the FIFA Congress we will show we will have zero tolerance.

“We will have zero tolerance on the pitch, more education, more respect towards the referees. There will be zero tolerance beyond the pitch – we have the instruments for that, the disciplinary committee, the ethics committee, and it’s time to act. We will do whatever is necessary.”

Blatter also praised Platini’s plan of having two extra assistant referees behind each goalline, which is now being trialled in European club competition and international football.

He added: “I’m happy to commend UEFA for its revolutionary view of refereeing and having five or even six officials on or near the pitch, not just three or four – this is a compliment.”

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Michel Platini was re-elected as UEFA president on Tuesday and pledged to tackle the “scourges” of violence in stadiums and match-fixing during his new four-year term.

The former France captain stood unopposed at the UEFA Congress after his policy of opening up UEFA competitions to more mid-ranking teams and introducing financial rules to curb clubs’ reckless spending proved popular with the 53 European nations.

Platini, who will remain office until 2015, said there had been “incidents in far too many grounds around Europe” and praised the Scottish FA’s stand against sectarianism during Old Firm clashes between Celtic and Rangers.

Platini told the UEFA Congress in Paris: “As George Peat and Stewart Regan (president and chief executive of the SFA) so rightly put it in a recent statement on behalf of the Scottish association: there is no place in football for those who transform passion into violence and pride into sectarianism.

“Every country should establish a whole battery of legal measures enabling them to ban hooligans from stadiums. Every country should appoint a prosecutor in charge of illegal betting and corruption in sport.

“I have started meeting the heads of state and government of countries particularly affected by this problem. It is important that their countries realise the seriousness of the situation and that they find a way to help us, you and their national associations.”

Platini also reiterated his belief in UEFA’s financial fair play rules protecting club football. The rules mean clubs in European competition will only be able to spend on transfers and wages what they earn in revenues.

He added: “This project should enable us to prevent some of our most time-honoured clubs from going under because of risky management by an irresponsible few.

“In 1984 Jacques Georges (ex-UEFA president) used a phrase that I have been drumming home constantly for months and thought I had coined myself: ‘We all know what it means if we spend more than we earn, and in football it would mean the end of the game.’

“So… perhaps history does sort of repeat itself after all.

“On the topic of club finances, allow me to remind you of just one figure: together, Europe’s professional clubs accumulated net losses of €1.2 billion in 2009 alone.

“So yes, there is a huge amount of money in football, but more importantly there is a moral problem in the way this money is sometimes generated and used.

“Financial fair play is a crucial project that will enable us to clean up certain practices within our game.

“It will be implemented in full in the course of my next term and we will apply the rules with the courage and resolution for which UEFA should be known.”

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Rafael Van der Vaart has hit back in the face of criticism following his controversial substitution at the weekend, with the Dutchman unhappy about Tottenham’s apparent failure to let him play 90 minutes.

Van der Vaart was taken off with 18 minutes remaining of Spurs’ 0-0 draw with West Ham. Instead of taking his place on the bench, the forward went straight down the tunnel – actions which angered manager Harry Redknapp.

“I didn’t like that at all,” Redknapp added. “If you are part of a team I think you should stay and watch the game. I will speak to him about it. He is a good lad. I just wanted to make a substitution.”

Van der Vaart did not speak to Redknapp after the game and has since returned to his native Netherlands for international duty. The former Real Madrid man feels the furore will blow over, but is far from happy with how he is being handled.

“I read that Harry Redknapp wanted a conversation with me, but I had to return to the Netherlands so I did not see him,” he said. “Tottenham should not be angry with me. I also did the same thing against AC Milan [in the Champions League].

“I played well, and did not find the substitution necessary. Often I like to play 90 minutes, but at Spurs that hardly ever happens.

“I am away for 10 days. When I return it is likely to have blown over.”

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Fernando Torres insists he is not suffering any anxiety over his failure to open his account for Chelsea.

Torres has failed to score in his seven appearances since making a £50 million move from Liverpool in January, and his form has been scrutinised on a regular basis in the national press.

He is now on international duty with Spain but, ahead of Friday’s Euro 2012 qualifier with Czech Republic, he has insisted that he has not lost confidence as a result of the drought.

“I am not anxious about the fact that I haven’t scored my first goal for Chelsea,” Torres said. “This is an issue for the papers, not for me.

“I am confident that the goals will soon come, but it is more important that Chelsea win than I score.”

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