UAE’s Al Serkal lobbies Gulf to support his AFC candidacy
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Yousef al Serkal (Source: Gulf News)
By James M. Dorsey
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) vice president Yousef Al Serkal, a former president of the United Arab Emirates soccer association, is lobbying Gulf countries to support him as the Arab consensus candidate to succeed suspended AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam, a Qatari national, as head of the As…