Wednesday, October 28, 2015

NEW: Tokyo Sexwale runs for FIFA presidency

Tokyo Sexwale, a South African anti-apartheid campaigner jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, hopes to beat the odds and become the first African to be president of scandal-hit world football body FIFA.

The 62-year-old, who is better known as former minister of human settlements and one of his country’s richest men rather than as a football administrator, confirmed his candidacy on Saturday.















Other official candidates ahead of the deadline this Monday for the February 26 election are European football chief Michel Platini, Prince Ali bin al Hussein of Jordan, former Trinidad and Tobago captain David Nahkid and former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne.


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