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Saddest News Ever: Tokyo Sexwale Has Suspended His Campaign For FIFA President

Your dream of having a man named Tokyo Sexwale in soccer news on a daily basis is dead: he’s dropped out of the running in today’s election for new FIFA president. In a process that could take 30 seconds if they did this electronically, it took roughly two hours to get the results of the first ballot of voting for who will take over for Sepp Blatter.

None of the four remaining candidates got the two-thirds majority needed to win the election (results below), so they’re going to do this all over again.

Here’s the live feed:

First ballot voting totals: UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino 88 votes; Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa 85; Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan 27; former FIFA executive Jerome Champagne of France 7.