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FIFA Reportedly Considering Delaying Presidential Elections

FIFA will hold an emergency executive committee meeting to discuss a possible delay to next year's presidential elections.

So reports Sky News' sports correspondent Paul Kelso, who shares when the meeting is due to take place:

Emergency FIFA ex-co at which delay to presidential election may be discussed scheduled for October 20

— Paul Kelso (@pkelso) October 9, 2015

As Owen Gibson of the Guardian reports, the election is due to be held on February 26, but following the bans of current president Sepp Blatter and vice-president Michel Platini by FIFA's ethics committee, several members of their executive committee have called for the crisis talks.