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Time for FIFA to turn to the East

There are seven candidates for the presidency of FIFA. Three of them are from Europe though they will become two when the Michel Platini/Gianni Infantino situation is resolved. Even if Platini is able to contest the presidency, which reasoned thought would consider impossible due to the stigma of corruption, the current UEFA president would seem to have burnt his bridges.

Most of football thinks it is time to change the old guard and because of the Eurocentricity of FIFA leadership for more than a century that old guard IS Europe.

That would leave Infantino and Jerome Champagne to represent the establishment against the candidates from Africa and Asia.