European football’s governing body Uefa has called for Fifa presidential election to be postponed in the wake of dawn arrests at Fifa’s official hotel in Zurich over corruption charges

European football’s governing body Uefa has called for Fifa presidential election to be postponed in the wake of dawn arrests at Fifa’s official hotel. Photo by: Anja Niedringhaus/AP. 
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The body’s top officials have threatened to boycott Fifa’s congress altogether after they held an emergency meeting in Warsaw prior to last night’s Europa League final.

They concluded Uefa’s preferred candidate, Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein, would not be able to prevent the Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s re-election even after yesterday’s extraordinary developments.

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