CAF support for Infantino is no guarantee of African votes at FIFA election Infantino cannot be guaranteed a block vote from the 54 CAF members. Football 19 min ago
But while the Confederation of African Football has issued a statement backing him, putting CAF at odds with three other continental governing bodies that want Infantino to account for his now-abandoned plan to carve off World Cup commercial rights, there is no guarantee African countries will toe the line.
All African associations wrote letters at the FIFA Congress in Vancouver in April expressing support for Infantino’s re-election ambitions, but that was before revelations of his plans to sell a stake in future World Cups.
Africans with history of breaking ranks Four years later, when CAF president Issa Hayatou challenged Blatter, the Swiss won a second term in a landslide vote with the majority of African countries voting for him.
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