By: Eastern Eye Staff
IN a rapidly changing situation, Asia’s top soccer officials delivered a major snub to FIFA on September 27, forcing the postponement of an election for three spots on the world body’s new governing Council in a row over the disqualification of a Qatari candidate. With FIFA president Gianni Infantino watching on, delegates to an Asian Football Confederation extraordinary congress, which had been called to conduct the election, voted down the agenda. Forty two of the 44 members who had voting rights at the meeting on September 27 raised a “No” card when AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa…
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