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Article: Hammam narrowly retains FIFA seat
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- May 8, 2009
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Mohamed Bin Hammam clung on to his seat on FIFA's executive committee by just two votes in an election Friday, with the narrow margin exposing deep divisions within the Asian Football Confederation.
After two ballots were deemed spoiled and inadmissible, the 46 nation Asian Football Confederation Congress voted 23 votes to 21 in favor of the AFC president against his Bahraini challenger Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa.
A bitterly fought election campaign exposed widespread dissatisfaction with the leadership style of Hammam, who came very close to being dumped from his 13-year tenure on FIFA's top body as well as the AFC presidency, which he promised to relinquish had ...