With knives deeply buried in backs, let the voting begin for power in Asia
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 18:23
By John Duerden in Kuala LumpurMay 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.
News analysis: Skullduggery, not unity, is AFC watchword, and now FIFA have entered the fray
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 10:46
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondentMay 1 - Claims and counter-claims, conspiracy theories bouncing back and forth, all manner of dirty tricks allegations – and even FIFA intervention. Unity, what unity?
Third human rights body calls for FIFA to investigate Sheikh Salman
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 08:52
By Paul Nicholson, Editor in chiefMay 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.
Crunch time for Asia as Al-Thawadi makes his case to join FIFA's top table
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 13:33
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondentMay 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.
Exclusive: Platini calls for Asia to end in-fighting
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 10:54
By John Duerden in Kuala LumpurMay 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.
Al Serkal bites back with letter to FIFA and AFC members
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:23
By Andrew WarshawMay 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.
Al Medlej pulls out of AFC presidency race
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:46
By John Duerden in Kuala LumpurMay 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.
Sri Lanka's Fernando handed 8-year ban
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:30
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondentMay 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.
Malawi Flames cleared by FIFA to switch qualifiers to the 'slaughter-house'
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:18
By Mark BaberMay 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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