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Greek Football Association president Makis Gagatsis and former Germany national team director Oliver Bierhoff on Tuesday backed UEFA's push for change in FIFA's leadership, underscoring a united European front in opposition to FIFA president Gianni Infantino.’The Greek FA (EPO) has taken a clear position against a candidacy of Gianni Infantino,’ EPO President Makis Gagatsis told reporters.’We saw things happen at the World Cup that are not acceptable to football public opinion,’ Gagatsis said.’Then… came a programme to sell World Cup rights and we are clearly against it, so we withdrew our support of the FIFA president.’He was speaking after a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, with a ‘legends'’ five-a-side game held in the city centre to promote UEFA's grassroots programme.UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin was also present at the event but did not talk to media.Infantino has been under mounting pressure ever since he unveiled a proposal to sell a commercial stake of the World Cup to private investors. The plan prompted fierce opposition, with UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and North America's CONCACAF among those calling for change at the top of FIFA.FIFA quickly abandoned the plan and apologised to member associations for mistakes made, but its leadership reaffirmed support for Infantino after a crisis meeting in August in Morocco.UEFA has been among the staunchest critics of Infantino and have said a change in leadership is now necessary given the loss of trust in Infantino, who is planning to run for re-election in March. 'WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF FOOTBALL'’We have to take care of football,’ Bierhoff, who was Germany's national team director for 18 years until 2022, said.’It is already commercial but it is a property for all of football.’The world views may be different but in the last weeks and months a lot happened so that we have no trust any more that it will be going in the right direction.’Infantino has weathered the opposition against him since he apologised to FIFA members in August over errors surrounding the abandoned proposal but has since declined to discuss the fallout publicly.Sources have told Reuters his critics are now having to rethink their strategy.They have until mid-November to name a rival presidential candidate but so far there is no clear frontrunner.On Saturday, Danish football chief Jesper Moller, a member of UEFA’s Executive Committee, said he would continue working with European colleagues to find a candidate who could command a majority. Source link
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Yemen’s Houthis seized control of the strategic Red Sea port city of Mocha yesterday, with witnesses telling AFP of fighters marching on the area chanting “death to America, death to Israel”. Saudi Arabia meanwhile launched dozens of air strikes in the last 24 hours, according to the military spokesman for the Houthis, who control large parts of northwest Yemen and launched a large-scale offensive last week against Riyadh-backed Yemeni government forces. The Houthis launched attacks on Saudi territory that left dozens of people wounded, in a conflict that has reignited during the Middle East war that began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in late February. A Yemeni military source told AFP yesterday that the Iran-backed Houthis were advancing towards the strategic Bab Al-Mandab strait “after having taken control of Mocha”.The waterway, which links Asia to Europe via the Red Sea and Suez Canal, has gained importance as a transit route since the start of the wider Middle East war, which saw Iran blockade the Strait of Hormuz. The regional war has disrupted maritime traffic in the Gulf, causing oil prices to soar.On Thursday, the US oil contract WTI surpassed $100, after Brent North Sea crude — the main international benchmark — already did so on Wednesday. After Mocha’s capture, the leader of Yemen’s internationally recognised Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, said the protection of the country’s coasts and restoring state control of them was an “Arab and international interest”. The military source said the Houthis also seized Zuqar Island in the southern Red Sea, “after rocket attacks and a ground assault carried out using boats transporting fighters”.In a statement, Tarek Saleh, who heads the Yemeni National Resistance Forces that controlled Mocha, said he moved his command centre “to a safe location” to regroup. Government forces have paid “a heavy price in recent days in the face of a Houthi offensive that was planned and supported by Iran”, he added.With their drones and missiles, the Houthis have been able to disrupt traffic in the Red Sea. But “controlling the coast would strengthen Houthi maritime coercion”, said Andreas Krieg, a security expert at King’s College London.The advance of the Houthis in Mocha, as well as in the nearby areas of Khokha and Hays, has driven many people to flee to Aden, where the internationally recognised government is based. Since last week, the fighting in Yemen has left more than 500 dead, mostly combatants, according to an AFP tally compiled from several sources.It has also forced nearly 20,000 people to flee their homes, the International Organisation for Migration said on Tuesday. Yesterday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Saudi Arabia had launched 64 strikes on Yemen over the previous 24 hours.Their Al-Masirah TV channel reported 10 strikes on Taiz province in western Yemen. The hostilities kicked off in July when the Houthis let an Iranian plane land in defiance of Saudi control of Yemeni airspace.The government retaliated by striking Sanaa airport, an attack the Houthis blamed on Saudi Arabia.The ongoing exchanges risk returning Yemen to a conflict that left hundreds of thousands of people dead and sparked one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.The Houthis, after seizing Yemen’s capital and forcing out the government, fought the Saudi-led coalition from 2015 until a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in 2022. Source link
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