The Bahraini sheikh bidding to become FIFA president next month says he would like Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, to be his secretary general if he wins the election. Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and a front-runner in the FIFA election, also said he wants former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson to join a board of advisers that he would set up. The election to choose a new head of FIFA was called after the organization was plunged into the worst crisis in its 111-year history last May with the arrest of officials by American and Swiss authorities probing corruption allegations.
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