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SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2017 SPORTS Germany set to regain FIFA Council seat in European election NYON: Germany is set to regain a place tournament. Germany, the World Cup conduct linked to 2006 World Cup He is poised to join several new 2021 are: former AC Milan player Dejan on FIFA’s ruling council in an election champion, prefers the current 32-team organizers led by Franz Beckenbauer, European members on FIFA’s strategy- Savicevic of Montenegro; Sandor Csanyi, forced by corruption allegations linked format. A former federal lawmaker, who also captained and coached West setting council after UEFA’s April election a UEFA executive committee member to the 2006 World Cup. Grindel must pass a FIFA integrity check Germany to World Cup titles. meeting in Helsinki, Finland. from Hungary; Geir Thorsteinsson, presi- German soccer federation president to be an official candidate to replace his Beckenbauer and other officials are Four more FIFA seats are being voted dent of Iceland’s soccer federation; and Reinhard Grindel is the only contender German federation predecessor, being investigated by Swiss federal pros- on by European soccer federations and, Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the Cyprus fed- in an April 5 election to fill a vacant FIFA Wolfgang Niersbach. ecutors, German tax officials and the of the five applicants, only Vitaly Mutko, eration president. Mutko must also pass seat, UEFA said Friday. Grindel’s likely Niersbach resigned from FIFA last FIFA ethics committee. the Russian deputy prime minister and an integrity test while under ethics com- path to a senior FIFA role was confirmed month after losing an appeal against his Grindel is not implicated in any alle- head of the 2018 World Cup organizing mittee scrutiny over allegations in World in the same week he criticized FIFA pres- one-year ban for unethical conduct.
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