Uefa: Postpone presidential election

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has said the election to choose a new president for international organisation Fifa should be postponed following the arrest of soccer officials in Zurich.

Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino said last night the corruption probe into Fifa “tarnish the image of football as a whole” and said European football associations will debate today whether to boycott this week’s Fifa congress in the Swiss city.

The hard-hitting allegations were made by US authorities, raising massive questions over the organisation’s presidential election tomorrow and the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar.