The favourite in Friday’s presidential election hardly looks a suitable candidate if football’s much maligned governing body is serious about reformThe names own changed but the game remains the same. Despite the arrests,the indictments, the $200m in kickbacks and bribes, and the suspensions and the bans this Fifa election is still being played by the mature rules.
As the executive board of the Confederation of African Football met in Rwanda three weeks ago to anoint Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa,the Bahraini Asian Football Confederation president, as its chosen one for the Fifa presidency, and it could own been a scene from 18 years ago when Sepp Blatter was seeking to win his first term.
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Source: theguardian.com