With knives deeply buried in backs, let the voting begin for power in Asia

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 18:23
AFC Kuala LumpurBy John Duerden in Kuala Lumpur
May 1 - The talking will shortly be over, the daggers are drawn and the tension is as thick as the cigarette smoke filling the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the Malaysian capital.

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News analysis: Skullduggery, not unity, is AFC watchword, and now FIFA have entered the fray

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 10:46
AFC picBy Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
May 1 - Claims and counter-claims, conspiracy theories bouncing back and forth, all manner of dirty tricks allegations – and even FIFA intervention. Unity, what unity?

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Third human rights body calls for FIFA to investigate Sheikh Salman

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 08:52
SHAIKH SALMANBy Paul Nicholson, Editor in chief
May 1 - A third human rights organisation has written to FIFA president Sepp Blatter asking him to refer Asian Football Confederation presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain to FIFA's ethics committee. 

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Crunch time for Asia as Al-Thawadi makes his case to join FIFA's top table

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 13:33
hassan al thawadiBy Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
May 1 - During the increasingly fractious battle in Kuala Lumpur to become President of Asian football, it has been conveniently overlooked amid the political in-fighting that the position is effectively transitionary and only for 18 months.

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Exclusive: Platini calls for Asia to end in-fighting

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 10:54
michel platiniBy John Duerden in Kuala Lumpur
May 1 - UEFA President Michel Platini has called for Asia to put an end to its in-fighting and move forward starting with Thursday's vote to elect a new president of the Asian Football Confederation.

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Al Serkal bites back with letter to FIFA and AFC members

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:23
yousuf al serkalBy Andrew Warshaw
May 1 - Any chance of Thursday's Asian football Presidential election vote being cleanly contested has totally evaporated following an unsavoury 11th-hour spat between the two front-runners, both of whom have thrown verbal grenades in each other's direction, prompting the intervention of FIFA.

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Al Medlej pulls out of AFC presidency race

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:46
hafez al medlejBy John Duerden in Kuala Lumpur
May 1 - Outsider Hafiz Al Medlej of Saudi Arabia as expected quit the race to become the next president of the Asian Football Confederation today, just hours after exclusively revealing to InsideWorldFootball that he was on the verge of pulling out of the running.

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Sri Lanka's Fernando handed 8-year ban

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Asia
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:30
fernandoBy Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
May 1 - The timing could hardly be worse. On the eve of the vote to clean up its act, Asian football has been rocked by yet another embarrassing scandal after Sri Lanka's Vernon Manilal Fernando, one of the continent's most powerful administrators, was kicked out of FIFA for eight years over unspecified unethical wrongdoing.

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Malawi Flames cleared by FIFA to switch qualifiers to the 'slaughter-house'

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Africa
Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:18
Flames of MalawiBy Mark Baber
May 1 - FIFA have given clearance to Malawi to play their two upcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers, against Namibia and Kenya, at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, following an inspection by Adnan El Guindy on April 21.

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