AMMAN — FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday won yet another delay on deciding whether to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to continue holding games in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, keeping FIFA in direct violation of its own statutes and commitment to respect human rights, global rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
Infantino won a 72 per cent majority in FIFA’s Congress — its general assembly — to delay a decision on the issue for a fifth year, until March 2018, HRW said in a statement e-mailed to The Jordan Times.
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Source: Jordan Times