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"I have got a surprise for you: my campaign ends today and I suspend my participation. With only
four people, it is your problem now," the 62-year-old said at the end of his final lobbying speech.
"I only answered: vote for who you want," Blatter told a Swiss newspaper, the Aargauer Zeitung.
The CONCACAF confederation for North and Central America and the Caribbean opted against
endorsing a candidate and delegates suggested that support within the region was divided.
With no block vote from those 35 delegates, Africa's decision looked set to be the decisive factor.
African countries make up more than a quarter of the 207 football associations eligible to vote. On
the final day of campaigning, there were sharply conflicting versions of how they would cast their
ballots.
While the vice-president of their continental federation said virtually all would back Sheikh Salman,
several delegates told Reuters the African vote would be split.
Infantino has said he is confident of winning more than half of the African votes, while Liberian
soccer chief Musa Bility predicted that 27 of the region's votes would go to Jordan's Prince Ali.
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