[FIFA] Chung Mong-Joon, one of FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s biggestcritics, has lost his position as Asia’s vice president of FIFA’s executive committee, falling to 35-year-old Crown Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, 25-20,in a vote of Asian members at the Asian Football Confederation’s congress in Doha on Thursday. In a bizarre twist, Qatari Mohamed Bin Hammam, re-elected withoutopposition as AFC president and one of Chung’s biggest rivals, claimed he voted for Chung, who had served on the executive committee since 1994.
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