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==Polemics==
==Administrative career==
He signed the decision of the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African FootbalL on 30 January 2010, banning Togo to participate in the next two editions of Africa Cup of Nations for his withdrawl after suffering a terrorist attack, with the result of two death and several injured.

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Issa Hayatou is the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). He was born on 9 August 1946 in Cameroon and is married with four children. In 2002 he ran for president of FIFA but was defeated by current president Sepp Blatter.

On November 3, 2007, Hayatou was awarded an honorary degree from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria.

Sports career

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

Polemics

He signed the decision of the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African FootbalL on 30 January 2010, banning Togo to participate in the next two editions of Africa Cup of Nations for his withdrawl after suffering a terrorist attack, with the result of two death and several injured.

  • 1973 - 1974 Coordinator-Professor at the Lycée Leclerc (Yaoundé)
  • 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 Cameroon Football Association Executive Committee
  • 1988 - today President of the Cameroon Football Association
  • 1990 Member of the 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

References

  1. "Hayatou honoured in Nigeria". Panapress. Afriquenligne. 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2007-11-04.
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