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U.S. Soccer to vote for Prince Ali of Jordan for FIFA president

The United States Soccer Federation will vote for Prince Ali of Jordan in Friday's FIFA election.

Prince Ali, the Jordan federation president, lost to Sepp Blatter in last year's election and this year is seen as a distant third to front-runners Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa and Gianni Infantino.

U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati announced the federation's choice on Twitter, writing:

.@ussoccer will vote for @AliForFIFA for President of #FIFA

- Sunil Gulati (@sunilgulati) February 25, 2016

Prince Ali then thanked the U.