The Uefa has taken at the meeting of its 54 member associations and a meeting of its Executive Committee surprising personnel decisions. Its general secretary Gianni Infantino suffered during the election campaign to the post of president at the World governing body Fifa a setback.
The 45-year-old Swiss can not count all the votes of the 53 electors Europeans for the vote on 26 February in Zurich currently. A communication from the European Football Union only by a large majority of national associations was the speech that stood around behind the candidacy Infantinos.
The associations had obviously at the meeting in Nyon can not agree on a unified position. Instead, they want to coordinate internally its preference for the FIFA election, it said. This had the German Football Association already done on Wednesday and claimed responsibility for Infantino. The Secretary-General was, after all, the support of the Executive Committee to the German functionaries Wolfgang Niersbach and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge declared. However, they are not entitled to vote.
In addition to Infantino is Asia Continental Chief Shaikh Salman apply bin Ibrahim al Khalifa of Bahrain, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein of Jordan, the South Africans Tokyo Sexwale and Jérôme Champagne from France to the Succession of locked Joseph Blatter. Entitled to vote are all 209 FIFA member countries.
Uefa upholds Platini
The locked Uefa boss Platini had originally intended to run for the FIFA official. After his exclusion for eight years by the FIFA Ethics Committee he had, however, announced its withdrawal from the candidate race. UEFA does not want the French just drop – and for now does not look for a successor.
Until the case of all instances resolved, will not set a date for a fixed election, told the Uefa with. Platini has announced appeal against the judgment before the Board of Appeal of the Football World Association and the International Sports Court of Arbitration. It was the dubious payment of 1.8 million euros, which had allegedly received in 2011 from also blocked Blatter for long past consultancy work the Frenchman’s undoing. Investigators suspect a bribe for Blatter’s victory in the presidential election in the summer of the same year. Both officials had repeatedly affirmed the legality of the payment.
“We hope that his name will be washed away, so that he can return to Europe’s football family as soon as possible,” it said in a Uefa statement , It is unclear whether Platini in an acquittal would have a claim on his position as Uefa boss by the sports jurisdiction.
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