Platini suspension throws open race for football's top job


Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan speaks at the Roman Amphitheatre area in downtown Amman, Jordan, September 9, 2015. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

ZURICH (Reuters) - The race to find a new FIFA president to lead football's scandal- plagued administration into a new era was thrown wide open on Thursday when onetime favourite Michel Platini was provisionally banned from football.

Sources close to Platini, head of European football body UEFA, had said he expected to win the backing of four of the six world continental confederations to succeed Sepp Blatter in an election on Feb. 26.

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