Bahrain: Salman Bin Ibrahim’s Fifa ambitions


Issue 1008 - 21 Jan 2016 | 1 minute read

Fifa presidential candidate Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Bin Hamad Al-Khalifa has hit back at his rival, Jordan’s Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein, who accused him of attempting to break election rules and of a “blatant attempt to engineer a block vote” by signing a pact between the Asian Football Confederation (which Sheikh Salman heads) and the Confederation of African Football (headed by acting Fifa president Issa Hayatou).

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