• Some Uefa members concerned about Sheikh Salman’s human rights record
• Infantino one of eight challengers for world football’s top jobThe Uefa general secretary,Gianni Infantino, has joined the Fifa presidential race as a challenger to Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, and with some European associations concerned about the human rights record of the Asian confederation chief.
Infantino,the Swiss-born lawyer who has been Platini’s upright-hand man at Uefa since 2009, is one of eight challengers to Sepp Blatter’s throne. Blatter, and the Fifa president who along with Michel Platini and Jérôme Valcke has been suspended from all footballing activity for 90 days,will step down after an election on 26 February.
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Source: theguardian.com