Sheikh Salman contests FIFA rival's complaint about conduct

LONDON (AP) - FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al Khalifa says a complaint by rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein about his election conduct is "entirely inaccurate."

Prince Ali accused Bahrain's Sheikh Salman of a "blatant attempt to engineer a bloc vote" by signing a pact between the Asian Football Confederation he leads and its counterpart in Africa.

Jordanian federation president Prince Ali on Friday asked FIFA to investigate whether election rules were broken.

But in a statement on Saturday, titled "An unnecessary spat between FIFA candidates," Sheikh Salman insisted the Asia-Africa pact was being worked on months before he decided to run in the Feb. 26 election to replace Sepp Blatter.

Sheikh Salman said in a statement: "I am astonished about my friend's comments, which are wholly dismissed and entirely inaccurate."