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- Updated: September 27, 2016
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has criticised FIFA’s decision to disband its anti-racism task force.
The FIFA Task Force Against Racism and Discrimination was set up in 2013 and wound up on Sunday, with the world governing body saying it had achieved its mission.
FIFA general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura, said: “It had a specific mandate, which it has fully fulfilled.”
However, president of the Jordan Football Association and former FIFA presidential candidate, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, was hugely critical of the controversial decision.
“For it to be disbanded with FIFA considering its work done is extremely worrying,” Prince Ali said. “The notion the current FIFA leadership believe the task force’s recommendations have been implemented is …