FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino addresses a news conference in Cape Town, February 22, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
ZURICH (Reuters) - World football's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history.
One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zurich.
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