The FIFA presidential election that will take place Friday in Zurich increasingly looks to be a two-man race between Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, and Gianni Infantino, the secretary general of UEFA, the sport’s governing body for Europe. But there are three other candidates in the race. Here’s a look at where they stand, how they faltered, and what might come next:
u25a0 Prince Ali bin al Hussein, the president of Jordan’s soccer association and a former member of FIFA’s executive committee, mounted a surprisingly strong challenge to Sepp Blatter in FIFA’s last presidential election.