Europe's Gianni Infantino and Asian football leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa led the five man battle for votes ahead of crisis-stricken FIFA's landmark vote on Friday for a new president.
FIFA's disgraced president Sepp Blatter returned to the headquarters of world football's governing on body to face an appeals committee he hopes will overturn his eight-year ban from the sport.
Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke became the latest high-profile soccer official to be sidelined from the sport when he was banned for 12 years after causing "considerable financial" damage to soccer's governing body.
FIFA's ethics watchdog has extended Secretary General Jerome Valcke's suspension from world soccer as it prepares a ruling over accusations of corruption involving the sale of World Cup tickets.
Banned FIFA president Sepp Blatter feels ‘abandoned’ by the global soccer body and will now focus on clearing his name, the 79-year-old Swiss told German magazine Bunte.
