March 16, 2017
All change in Africa as Ahmad sweeps Hayatou from power after 29 years
Ahmad Ahmad's victory brings to an end Issa Hayatou's 29-year stranglehold on African football.
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March 15, 2017
As election time beckons, Hayatou’s dominance of African football could soon be over
Issa Hayatou has dominated African football politics for almost 30 years, but his days as president of CAF could be over tomorrow.
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April 30, 2013
Blatter cleared of taking bribes, but how much did he know?
The report on the collapse of ISL and the ensuing scandal over the bribes taken by present and former members of FIFA, has finally been published.
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February 11, 2013
Sleepwalking towards the status quo in Africa and FIFA
Issa Hayatou likes his sleep. The Cameroonian president of African football nodded off while watching South Africa play Angola at the Nations Cup and is noted by his FIFA exco colleagues for taking ‘time out’…
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January 25, 2013
FIFA-ISL scandal: the truth is out there
At long last, FIFA’s executive committee will be confronted in March by as much of the truth as is ever likely emerge about the depth and breadth of the ISL scandal.
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January 15, 2013
Out of Africa: challenge to Hayatou raises the stakes
Jacques Anouma has not yet lost all hope of winning his fight with Issa Hayatou within the upper echelons of the African Football Confederation - but the latest ruling by the Court of Arbitration for…
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November 4, 2012
Issa Hayatou: the man who would be king
Visibly ageing and increasingly ill but still the consummate politician, Issa Hayatou has secured himself a further term at the helm of African football which will take his reign as Confederation of African Football (CAF)…
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September 22, 2011
Keir Radnedge tries to unravel the tangled FIFA web
There appears to be no rhyme or reason to Sepp Blatter's ongoing reforms of football's governing body.
