Nigerian administrator Amos Adamu is facing another ban from all football-related activities by Fifa. The investigatory chamber at the world governing body’s ethics committee has been looking into alleged breaches of its code of ethics since March 2015. It has now recommended a two-year ban and a fine for Adamu, a former Fifa executive committee … Read more
Nigerian administrator Amos Adamu is facing another ban from all football-related activities by Fifa. The investigatory chamber at the world governing body’s ethics committee has been looking into alleged breaches of its code of ethics since March 2015. It has now recommended a two-year ban and a fine for Adamu, a former Fifa executive committee … Read more
Ex-Fifa president Sepp Blatter has accused successor Gianni Infantino of disrespecting him and says the new head of world football does not answer his phone calls. The 80-year-old says he has met with Infantino to discuss “questions that should be solved” at Fifa. “[Infantino] said ‘I will work on that’ and he never came back,” … Read more
Confederation of African Football President, Issa Hayatou, has been decorated with the 2016 Diamond of Asia Award, one of the prestigious honours bestowed by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). He was decorated on the night of the AFC Awards on Thursday, 1 December 2016 at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the … Read more
CAF president Issa Hayatou has no plans of increasing the number of teams for the Africa Cup of Nations finals to 24. There are suggestions that the continent’s governing body should add eight more slots to the current 16 as it has happened to the European Championship. But that idea has rejected by Hayatou, who … Read more
The Confederation of African Football president will be limited to three terms in office from next year’s election in March 2017. Junior Binyam, Caf’s media spokesman, confirmed to BBC Sport that the new ruling was approved at Thursday’s Extraordinary General Assembly. It is a major change for the governing body, whose incumbent president Issa Hayatou … Read more
Kwesi Nyantakyi swept onto the FIFA Council with on Thursday when securing 31 votes in a very close race in Cairo. The 47-year, who is the President of the Ghana Football Association, finished second in the race which was won the CAF vice-president Almamy Kabele who had 37 votes. Nyantakyi beat Madagascar’s Ahmad by just … Read more
Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi was among five candidates who vied for two FIFA Council seats available for Africa. Below are the four who caontested Nyantakyi. Almamy Kabele Camara of Guinea The Minister for Defence for Guinea is a football man through and through having served as the President of the Guinea Football … Read more
Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi is among five candidates vying for two FIFA Council seats available for Africa today. Almamy Kabele Camara of Guinea The Minister for Defence for Guinea is a football man through and through having served as the President of the Guinea Football Federation in the past before rising to … Read more
Ghana has the chance to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations after Libya withdrew from hosting the event owing to the civil strife in the north African country. Libya withdrew from hosting the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations on Friday after meeting CAF chiefs in Cairo resulting in CAF inviting Ghana and other African … Read more