The battle for Fifa\u2019s top job was thrown into further turmoil Sunday when president Sepp Blatter\u2019s main rival for the post, Mohamed bin Hammam, ended his campaign amid a bitter fall-out over allegations of corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\nBin Hammam\u2019s decision came just hours before both the Qatari and Blatter were scheduled to face the ethics committee of football\u2019s world governing body over bribery allegations.<\/p>\n
As Blatter was due to respond to claims that he knew about cash payments at the centre of a probe targeting Bin Hammam, the latter ended his campaign saying he was \u201dhurt and disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at a great price \u2013 the degradation of Fifa\u2019s reputation,\u201d said 61-year-old Bin Hammam, who campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and had waged a bitter war of words with long-serving Blatter.<\/p>\n
Bin Hammam had demanded the corruption investigation be widened to include Blatter on Thursday as the two men prepared to contest a June 1 election for control of Fifa.<\/p>\n
Two days earlier, Bin Hammam, Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and two Caribbean Football Union officials had been summoned to the ethics committee to answer corruption allegations.<\/p>\n
Bin Hammam and Warner were targeted after Chuck Blazer, general secretary of regional football body Concacaf, reported possible misdeeds during a May 10 and 11 meeting in Trinidad.<\/p>\n
British media reports said Bin Hammam and Warner are accused of offering $40,000 (28,000 euros) in cash gifts to national associations at the Trinidad conference in return for their votes in next week\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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