Posted on 02/06/2016 11:03:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said Friday it was backing Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain as its candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter as president of world body FIFA.
'The executive committee decided that CAF will give full support to Sheikh Salman with his candidacy for FIFA presidency,' CAF first vice president Suketu Patel told reporters following an executive committee meeting.
CAF second vice president Almamy Kabele Camara said the decision to support the 50-year-old Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president had been reached “unanimously†at the meeting during the African Nations Championship tournament in Kigali.
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Money talks! Just ask the GOPe politicians...
Ha! Now all matched will have to start with a Muslim prayer...and the fields will have to oriented in the direction of Mecca.
A bunch of corrupt officials now get taken over by more corrupt officials.
“We’re in the money. We’re in the money.”
“ear-way inway ee-the oney-may”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw
Knocks me out every time.
That is hilarious.
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