UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, October 15, 2015. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
ZURICH (Reuters) - UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino entered the race for FIFA president on Monday as Asian soccer chief Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain declared he had also put himself forward.
A surprise announcement from the European soccer authority that it was backing Infantino came ahead of the midnight CET deadline for candidates to register nominations for the presidency of world soccer's crisis-torn governing body. The FIFA election is scheduled to take place in Zurich on Feb. 26.
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