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Prince Ali says FIFA politics affected international fixtures

GENEVA, Some national teams have been given unfavourable fixtures for failing to toe the political line inside soccer's world governing body, the Jordanian candidate to become its next president said on Thursday.

Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, one of five men competing to take over as head of FIFA, described a climate of fear and reprisals inside the scandal-plagued organisation, whose outgoing boss, Sepp Blatter, was suspended in October and banned from football for eight years in December.

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