Turkey’s UEFA power broker Yardımcı pull out of TFF elections citing ‘dirty campaign’
July 15 – Turkey’s Servet Yardımcı is reported to be quitting UEFA’s executive committee after withdrawing as a candidate for the Turkish FA presidency.
According to news reports in Turkey, Yardımcı (pictured) was due to meet with UEFA officials on the sidelines of the Euro 24 final in Berlin to explain his decision.
Yardimci has been an influential member of the UEFA executive committee since 2017 but said that during the Turkish presidency race he had been “subjected to a dirty operation full of slanders that will never match with my character and upbringing.”
“After the Turkish Football Federation’s decision to hold extraordinary elections on July 18,
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