At least 26 African countries will not vote for Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain in the FIFA presidential election, defying the recommendation of the continental confederation, said Musa Bility, the head of the Liberian soccer federation.
Also, six Central European federations — from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland and Slovakia — confirmed their support for Gianni Infantino, the secretary general of UEFA, the European confederation, according to Leo Windtner, the Austrian federation’s president.
u25a0 Gordon Derrick, president of the Caribbean Football Union, and Victor Montagliani, president of the Canadian Soccer Association, said they would run for the presidency of Concacaf, the North and Central American and Caribbean confederation.