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Encyclopedia > Issa Hayatou

Issa Hayatou is the current president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). He was born on 9 August 1946 in Cameroon and is married with four children. CAF Logo The 53 member Confederation of African Football (CAF; French: Confédération Africaine de Football) represents international football in Africa, and organises the African Cup of Nations as well as the African Champions League. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...


Sports career

  • 1964 - 1971 Champion at the 400m and 800m; Member of the national basketball team of Cameroon; Football player at the university level
  • 1965 Member of the Cameroon national team on the occasion of the first All Africa Games in Brazzaville.

The All-Africa Games, sometimes called the African Games or Pan African Games, are a regional multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA). ... Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA. Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo and is located on the Congo River. ...

Adminstrative career

  • 1973 - 1974 Coordinator-Professor at the LycĂ©e LECLERC ( YAOUNDE )
  • 1974 - 1983 General Secretary of the Cameroon Football Association
  • 1982 - 1986 Director of Sports of Cameroon (Ministry of Youth and Sports)
  • 1985 - 1988 President of the Cameroon Football Association
  • 1986 Member of the CAF Executive Committee
  • 1988 - today President of CAF
  • 1990 Member FIFA Executive Committee
  • 1992 - today FIFA Vice-President; President of the Organising committee of the Football Olympic Tournaments of FIFA; Vice-President of FIFA Committee for Security and Fair-Play; Member of the World Cup Organising Committee
  • 1997 Member of the Women and Sport Committee of the International Olympic Committee; Head of the Cameroonian sports delegations on several sporting occasions
  • 2001 Elected member of the International Olympic Committee during the Moscow session

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FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (1391 words)
%=macroPartfont/arial3=%Issa Hayatou was born to lead and to serve: to lead with his ideas, to organise anything from children's games to the big events, to serve others with a sense of dutiful generosity and magnanimity and with an honesty motivated by a sense of justice and passion.
The Hayatous stem from the northern part of Cameroon known for its nobility and its wisdom, and this widespread family has long enjoyed special status among the local population; traditionally, nothing was ever done without the Hayatous' approval.
Issa Hayatou has won his first battle in these first eight years as CAF President, showing the confederation to be really in control of the game throughout the continent.
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