Asian Football Confederation (AFC) head Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa arrives for a meeting with the FIFA task force in Doha February 24, 2015. REUTERS/Mohammed Dabbous
GENEVA (Reuters) - Two Arab royals are set to face off for control of FIFA with the main battleground likely to be Europe, the home of world soccer’s scandal-hit governing body.
The election to replace Sepp Blatter at the helm of FIFA took a fresh twist on Friday as the president of Asian soccer Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain entered the contest.
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