Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Africa's flamboyant new player plots downfall of Hayatou (The Associated Press)

The man driving the campaign to unseat longtime African soccer boss Issa Hayatou is a multi-millionaire Zimbabwean property tycoon who dabbles in politics and was once accused of being a spy. Zimbabwe Football Association president Phillip Chiyangwa was a nobody in soccer, even in his home country, just over a year ago. Now he gets FIFA president Gianni Infantino to come to his birthday party and dance with him.

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