Asian soccer body scraps 12-year limit for senior officials and lets Sheikh Salman stay beyond 2027

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Asian soccer leaders can have unlimited years in power. The Asian Football Confederation has voted to scrap 12-year term limits for senior elected officials that are key pillar of reforms passed after the corruption crisis that rocked FIFA in 2015.

FILE - FIFA presidential candidate Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain attends an extraordinary FIFA congress in Zurich, Switzerland Feb. 26, 2016. Asian soccer leaders can now have unlimited years in power. The Asian Football Confederation governing body has voted to scrap 12-year term limits for senior elected officials that are key pillar of reforms passed after the corruption crisis that rocked FIFA in 2015.

Removing presidents after no more than 12 years were then seen as essential to curb networks of patronage and loyalty that can enable corruption and poor governance.

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