Musa Bility excluded from the FIFA presidential election after failing integrity checks

Musa Bility has been excluded from the FIFA presidential election after failing integrity checks

ONE of the seven candidates for the FIFA presidency has been excluded from the election after failing integrity checks.

 

FIFA's electoral committee has announced that Liberian football association chief Musa Bility has not passed the check and is not eligible to stand - but is not making the reasons for his exclusion public.

Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has passed the checks despite claims from human rights groups he was involved in a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in his home country Bahrain.

 

The other candidates cleared are Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, former FIFA official Jerome Champagne from France, UEFA's general secretary Gianni Infantino from Switzerland, and Tokyo Sexwale, the former anti-apartheid activist from South Africa.

The electoral committee will not carry out integrity checks on Michel Platini, the UEFA president who is currently suspended for 90 days pending an ethics committee hearing into a £1.3million payment he received from FIFA in 2011, until the disciplinary process is complete.

The election of the successor to Sepp Blatter, who is also under a 90-day suspension, takes place on February 26.