Jordan's Prince Ali, Fifa and the importance of not being Sepp Blatter

Image: Jordan Football Association

My latest profile in the Newsmaker series of The National's Weekend section*, was - I hope - prepared with the usual care even though I was preoccupied by reports from Paris even as I researched and wrote. Who, then, is the Jordanian prince who would unseat Sepp Blatter at Fifa? ...

In any fair-minded debate >on who should occupy world football’s highest office, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein’s credentials would be seen, at face value, as compelling.

The third son of the late King Hussein of Jordan has announced that he will challenge Sepp Blatter for the presidency of Fifa (the International Federation of Association Football). He’s a man steeped in what is known, with variable accuracy, as the beautiful game.