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Russia giving up top FIFA seat, targets new UEFA position

by Graham Dunbar
| January 14, 2021 2:31 AM

GENEVA (AP) — Russia is giving up its place on the FIFA Council and proposing its soccer federation president as a new candidate to join the UEFA executive committee, the European soccer body said Thursday.

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