CAF President: Issa Hayatou loses, after 29-year reign
Madagascar Football Association Chief, Ahmed Ahmad has defeated Issa Hayatou, in Thursday’s Confederation of African Football election.
The defeat ends Hayatou’s 29-year reign as CAF boss. He will also lose his position as the vice president of world football governing body, FIFA.
The result means a change in leadership for the first time since the Cameroonian Hayatou took charge in 1988.
Ahmad won 34 of the 54 votes in the election, which was held in Addis Ababa.
Hayatou had been challenged for the CAF presidency only twice before and both times won with landslide victories.
