Royal bid for AFC presidency unlikely to succeed


Issue 933 - 12 Oct 2012 | 2 minute read

A member of Bahrain’s royal family, head of the Bahrain Football Association (BFA) Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, is campaigning to become the next president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), courting yet more controversy for the region’s soccer establishment.

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