ASIAN soccer leaders rebelled against FIFA on Tuesday, calling off their extraordinary congress and postponing the election of three representatives to the new FIFA Council.

    The Asian Football Confederation said the congress lasted only 27 minutes after member countries voted 42-1 against the agenda.

    The congress in Goa, India, had been called to elect three officials to join existing AFC members from Japan, Kuwait and Malaysia, as well as President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain, on the 37-member FIFA Council.

    The AFC later held an emergency executive committee meeting, where Chinese candidate Zhang Jian was added to the committee until the next extraordinary congress.

    FIFA announced Sunday it had barred Qatari candidate Saoud al-Mohannadi from running in the election based on an ethics committee report, leaving Zhang running against Ali Kafashian of Iran and Nordin of Singapore for two of the three FIFA Council seats from Asia.

    (SD-Agencies)