Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan and four others have been approved to contest the FIFA Presidency in an election slated for February 26.
Others that have sailed through the FIFA’s ad-hoc Electoral Committee screening are Sheik Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Jerome Champagne of France, Gianni Infantino of Italy and Switzerland and Tokyo Sexwale of South Africa.
The global soccer governing body, made this known today in a statement but did not elaborate. [myad]
