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A former member of FIFA's Governance Committee alleges that there are \u201cserious allegations\u201d concerning the election of Egypt's Hany Abo Rida to the FIFA Council in May, BBC reports<\/a>. Abo Rida\u2019s opponent in the elections had alleged that he threw a party and flew in delegations from the other federations, a violation of FIFA\u2019s election regulations. Miguel Maduro, who was ousted as chair of FIFA's Governance Committee in May, made the claims when addressing a British parliamentary committee on Wednesday and said \u201cwe intended to investigate the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A former member of FIFA's Governance Committee alleges that there are \u201cserious allegations\u201d concerning the election of Egypt's Hany Abo Rida to the FIFA Council in May, BBC reports. Abo Rida\u2019s opponent in the elections had alleged that he threw a party and flew in delegations from the other federations, a violation of FIFA\u2019s election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[72,162],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-641258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_newspack_sports","tag-enterpriseam","tag-sports","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"3fdb4162-944f-44a5-9aa7-a87d16aecc12","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[641216],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nAbo Rida\u2019s election to FIFA Committee under fire - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/09\/17\/abo-ridas-election-to-fifa-committee-under-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abo Rida\u2019s election to FIFA Committee under fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A former member of FIFA's Governance Committee alleges that there are \u201cserious allegations\u201d concerning the election of Egypt's Hany Abo Rida to the FIFA Council in May, BBC reports. 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