African race for FIFA Council narrowed after two pull out
By Andrew Warshaw
September 29 – Following the stunning abandonment of the Asian Football Confederation’s extraordinary congress in Goa, sparked by FIFA’s ban of Qatari Saoud Al-Mohannadi from standing for election to join its new ruling council because of an ongoing ethics investigation, attention has switched to Africa where another candidate has suddenly withdrawn from that region’s Council election being held today.
CAF first vice-president Suketu Patel from the Seychelles mysteriously pulled out at the 11th hour from the race for the two extra African places on the Council leaving five candidates fighting it out at CAF’s Extraordinary General Assembly in Cairo.
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