UEFA Called For FIFA To Postpone Presidential Vote

Wed, May 27th 2015, 06:35 PM

The European soccer body UEFA has called for FIFA to postpone its presidential vote, scheduled for Friday, and says it may boycott this week's annual FIFA Congress.

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino says corruption investigations into FIFA "tarnish the image of football as a whole." He said European football associations will debate Thursday whether to boycott the Zurich congress.

Infantino says UEFA's executive committee wants "a change to the leadership" of FIFA, with the congress to be postponed and a new presidential election held within six months. UEFA is supporting Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan in the race but FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been strongly favored to be elected to a fifth, four-year term before Wednesday's arrests.

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