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7 entries accepted for FIFA presidential election

FILE - In this May 30, 2015 file photo FIFA President Sepp Blatter, center, speaks next to Jerome Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, left, and Walter De Gregorio, Director Communications and Public Affairs, right, during a news conference following the FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP, file).
FILE - In this May 30, 2015 file photo FIFA President Sepp Blatter, center, speaks next to Jerome Valcke, FIFA Secretary General, left, and Walter De Gregorio, Director Communications and Public Affairs, right, during a news conference following the FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP, file).

ZURICH – FIFA says there are seven official entries for the presidential election to replace Sepp Blatter, with former Trinidad and Tobago player David Nakhid not on the list.

Nakhid said this month he submitted his application with the required five nominations. However, Nakhid was left off the list of valid candidatures published by FIFA on Wednesday.

The seven are: Michel Platini, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale, Musa Bility, Jerome Champagne and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.

Platini’s candidature has been accepted pending a FIFA ethics committee investigation into financial wrongdoing.

The election is scheduled for Feb. 26.

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