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		</div><p>Asian football’s leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa has become the sixth candidate to submit his candidacy for the FIFA presidential election, according to the official Bahrain news agency.</p>
<p>Sheikh Salman, who is from Bahrain, is said to have submitted his nominations to FIFA on Sunday night despite opposition from human rights groups.</p>
<p>His entry into the election throws the contest wide open – he had previously backed UEFA president Michel Platini until his suspension, commands widespread support in Asia and is a close ally of influential Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah from Kuwait.</p>
<p>Platini is still hopeful of being able to run despite being suspended by FIFA’s ethics committee for 90 days pending a disciplinary hearing into a £1.3m payment signed off by outgoing president Sepp Blatter in 2011.</p>
<p>The other candidates announced so far are: South Africa’s Tokyo Sexwale, a former anti-apartheid activist who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela; Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan; David Nakhid, former Trinidad and Tobago player; and former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne.</p>
<p>Sheikh Salman is a member of the Bahrain royal family and has attracted opposition from human rights organisations due to the regime’s role in the suppression of the country’s pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011.</p>
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