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Hamidin withdraws from AFC race, hands support to Myanmar

It had been two successive elections in a row which Dato' Hamidin Mohd Amin had won, first the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) presidency in 2018 then the ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) vice presidency in 2019 but there won't be a third.

This is because Hamidin has announced that he has withdrawn his vice-president candidacy from the Asean zone in the 29th Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Congress that will be held in Kuala Lumpur this Saturday, April 6.

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Each zones in Asia have a vice-president slot and Hamidin's name was nominated for ASEAN alongside Myanmar's Zaw Zaw and Vietnam's Tran Quoc Tuan for the role that will supposedly serve for the next four until from 2019 to 2023.