Jordan Soccer Leadership Accuses FIFA’s Gianni Infantino Of 'Blackmail'

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The president of the Jordanian Football Association, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, connected Tuesday accused FIFA president Gianni Infantino of blackmailing his statement successful attempts to unafraid the Jordan team’s ballot successful the organization's adjacent activity election.

Infantino, who erstwhile had the backing of almost each of FIFA’s 211 personnel organizations, is facing a imaginable outster successful March’s predetermination aft he angered a important number of nationalist federations pinch a scheme to waste a 20% liking successful the World Cup to a group of backstage investors.

The scheme was dropped precocious past week, but he’s now reportedly racing to drum up capable votes to unafraid his reelection to a 4th word arsenic president arsenic teams for illustration England, Wales, Finland and Sweden retract their support.

In a social media post Tuesday, Ali said it was “verbally communicated” to him during the World Cup that issues faced by his team—including unpaid subordinate reward money and problems pinch World Cup visas—could beryllium solved if Jordan endorsed Infantino for a 4th term.

Ali said Jordan didn’t endorse Infantino earlier the alleged coercion and still doesn’t, and added “the full business amounts to blackmail and we garbage to springiness successful to that.”

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