All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... team. They know exactly what they need to do to qualify."The draws will be graced by CAF President Issa Hayatou and the entire CAF executive.Host nation Angola will be one of the seeded teams for the championship.Other teams who have qualified for the tournament are Cameroon, Gabon, Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Benin, while the other...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
The decision by CAF president, Issa Hayatou to challenge Sepp Blatter in the election of the president of the world football governing body, must have borne some fruits after all. Since then, the continent of Africa is receiving more attention for the World football governing body. In the build up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the world football governing body, FIFA put aside...
Bruno and the Professor (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... for more bloc voting, which both corrupts and simplifies the process. Meaning when Jack Warner or Issa Hayatou promises their confederations’ support, they not only mean it, but can get it done too. Have no doubts that CONCACAF will vote as a block (even Mexico) in favor of the US hosting a World Cup. The IOC and any alliances/blocs within it, tend to be harder to read. It’s well...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... said the taskforce, which is to be chaired by the president of the Cameroon football federation, Issa Hayatou, will consider whether to lower the age limit by two years while also ruling out overage players or stick with the same system. However, the president did not rule out adopting other solutions. "One side is to go to 21 and the other one is to maintain what is in,"...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
... to the four-year Olympic cycle.He said FIFA had appointed the head of African governing body CAF, Issa Hayatou, to lead a task force to find a way around the problem of settling on a format for the next Games in London in 2012."Olympic football is very attractive to the Games organisers. It is the only sport that is outside the host city apart from sailing and the only one spread...
FIFA - Latest News (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... players, thus giving full transparency. Men's Olympic Football TournamentsFIFA Vice-President Issa Hayatou was appointed to chair the working group to consider the eligibility criteria for players participating in future Men's Olympic Football Tournaments. This working group will comprise, amongst others, one representative of each Confederation and will submit a recommendation to...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
... be enough to get the Brazilian city the Games. Cabral said he also obtained for Rio the vote of Issa Hayatou, of Cameroon, who is the president of the African Football Confederation and a member of the IOC. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cancelled his planned attendance at a formal dinner in Blatter's honour on Tuesday in order to travel to Copenhagen a day earlier...
