Al Serkal bites back with letter to FIFA and AFC members

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Asia

Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:23

By 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

By 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

By 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

By 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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Is your boyfriend reading this?

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News

Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:36

By Mark Baber
May 1 - NBA player Jason Collins this week became the first active competitor in a major American professional sport to announce he is gay, shining the spotlight on homophobia in football around the world, as we approach Friday's 16th anniversary of the tragic suicide of Justin Fashanu (pictured), Britain's first £1m black footballer and still the only prominent player to come out as gay to date.

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Havelange resigns over ISL bribes, Blatter cleared but labeled 'clumsy'

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News

Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 13:12

By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
April 30 - Joao Havelange, who controlled FIFA for 24 years as he stalked the corridors of power, has resigned as honorary president after being officially denounced for having taken bribes while running the organisation. In a move that will reverberate through football's world governing body and focus even more public interest and attention on FIFA's reform process, the veteran Brazilian, now 97, quit what was very much a ceremonial role - but a highly prestigious one - after being  discredited in the official report into the infamous ISL scandal.

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Al Serkal and Sheikh Salman count votes as spectre of OCA haunts KL hallways

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Asia

Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 11:57

By John Duerden in Kuala Lumpur
April 30 - Yousuf Al-Serkal has not only labelled Bahraini rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa over-confident for predicting that he could win Thursday's Asian Football Confederation presidential election in the first-round of voting but the head of the United Arab Emirates FA hinted to Inside World Football that he could receive help from other candidates in subsequent rounds. 

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FIFA anti-racism taskforce takes shape

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FIFA

Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:07

By Paul Nicholson
April 30 – The composition of FIFA's anti-racism taskforce is taking shape and although not yet officially announced, it includes a number of high profile and perhaps unexpected appointments from across a range of football activity.

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