Greg Dyke, the chairman of the English Football Association, questioned the credentials of Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain, the Asian Football Confederation’s president and a leading candidate for the FIFA presidency. With the election set for next week, Sheikh Salman remains under scrutiny over his role in Bahrain’s uprising in 2011.
u25a0 The suspended FIFA member federations of Kuwait and Indonesia will have their voting rights assessed next week, two days before the FIFA presidential election. (AP)
u25a0 The Dutch soccer association said it had confirmed for the first time that there had been an attempt to fix a match in the Netherlands’ top league, the Eredivisie.