In one of the dramatic turnarounds in Asian football, Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa is elected as the president of Asian Football confederation beating his two rivals UAE’s Yousef Al Serkal and Thailand`s Worawi Makudi in the first round of voting. He required two third of the votes to be elected in the prestigious FIFA executive committee and he got as many as 33 votes out of 46 leaving Youssef Al-Serkal of the United Arab Emirates in the third place with six votes - just one behind to Worawi Makudi of Thailand. The margin of win is too much which is coz of the downfall in the popularity of current president Mohamed Bin Hammam who is facing a life ban after naming in the bribe scandal off late. Other two contestants were considered closed to Hammam and that is why they faced the heat of rejection from everywhere. Actually, Sheikh Salman also stood against Hammam in the same presidential election back in 2009 and then lost by a narrowed margin, but this time he was at … [Read more...]