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Sheikh Salman voted new AFC president

By Reuters in Kuala Lumpur | China Daily | Updated: 2013-05-03 07:36

Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa will run Asian soccer for the next two years after the Bahraini won a three-way election for the presidency of the Asian Football Confederation on Thursday.

Sheikh Salman secured 33 votes of the 46 available from the AFC's member associations in Malaysia to beat Yousuf Al Serkal of the United Arab Emirates (six votes) and Thailand's Worawi Makudi (seven votes).

Outsider Hafez Al Medlej of Saudi Arabia unsurprisingly withdrew on the eve of the vote after failing to win full support of the west Asian region.

Sheikh Salman voted new AFC president

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