Brazilian football federation chief Ricardo Teixeira is calling for a general assembly meeting that could decide the framework for his succession.

Teixeira on Friday announced that he has asked all federation members to attend the meeting next Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.

A statement said the general assembly will discuss matters of the federation, including a possible change in its statutes. The change could allow Teixeira and the local federations to pick a successor when he leaves, altering the current rules which say the senior vice president must be made the new president.

Teixeira, who is also the president of the 2014 World Cup local organising committee, has been under pressure to step down after a series of allegations against him in Brazil and abroad.

He has always denied any wrongdoing.

The latest accusation involving his name came on Friday, when the Folha de S Paulo newspaper, Brazil’s largest, reported that prosecutors allegedly found more evidence of irregularities involving a company that organised a friendly between Brazil and Portugal in 2008 in Brasilia.

Under the current statutes, the senior vice president takes over as president if Teixeira leaves but the local federations have been fighting over the successor and want to be able to pick a name themselves.

Some of the federations which oppose Teixeira had already scheduled to meet on the same day of the general assembly to discuss his replacement.

Teixeira’s decision to set up the meeting on the same day was seen as a strategy to delay their plans.

“We had to cancel our meeting,” said Francisco Novelletto, president of the Rio Grande do Sul state federation, according to Folha. “We have to go to the general assembly.”

Former Sao Paulo state Governor Jose Maria Marin would be Teixeira’s replacement based on the current rules but he also isn’t totally free of controversy.

Earlier this year, television cameras caught him putting a winner’s medal in his pocket while presenting them to the players of an under-18 tournament in Sao Paulo.

He later said the medal was given to him. Organisers never accused him of any wrongdoing.

Teixeira was twice investigated by Brazil’s Congress and recently was accused of taking kickbacks from former FIFA marketing partner ISL in the 1990s.

He was also accused by the former chairman of England’s Football Association, David Triesman, of unethical behaviour and improper conduct during bidding for the 2018 World Cup.

There were widespread rumours that Teixeira was going to resign last week, with some of the federations saying that they got calls from the president saying he was going to either step down or take a leave of absence.

But Teixeira released a statement at the time to quiet the rumours and said he would continue working regularly after a short trip to Miami during Carnival.