The Confederation of African Football awaits the announcement of Mozebi as president

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Rabat opened, on Friday, its general assembly, which is expected to recommend South African Patrice Mutsibi as the new president to replace Malagasy Ahmed Ahmed.

Mutsepi will assume the presidency of the federation after the president of the Swiss-Italian Federation, Jani Infantino, reached an agreement to withdraw the Ivorian Jacques Anoma, Senegalese Agustan Senghor and Mauritanian Ahmed Ould Yahya, with the former getting the position of advisor to the president and the two vice-presidents.

The FIFA president opened the works of the General Assembly, noting the importance of "unity" and "the value of team spirit, which we have seen in recent months in Africa," noting that "you all have the same vision,

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"Now, the level of African football must be raised to the world in cooperation with FIFA." ".

In addition to choosing a new president, the African Union will elect its representative on the FIFA Council on Friday, in addition to the members of its executive body.

Mozebi is in charge of the leadership of the continental federation, which includes 54 national federations, while its former president, Malagasy Ahmed Ahmed, was arrested by FIFA for five years, before the Court of Arbitration for Sport reduced the period of suspension to two years for violations related to "the duty of loyalty .. offer and accept gifts or advantages. Others ... abuse of position "in addition to" mismanagement of funds. "

It will be the first South African to chair the African Union, after two presidents from Egypt and Sudan and one from Ethiopia, Cameroon and Madagascar.

Unlike previous presidents of the continental federation, coming from their national federations, the name of Mozibi emerged through his presidency of the South African club Mamelodi Sundowns, the continent's champion in 2016. President of the city club of Pretoria since 2003, before announcing in the past days that he would give up his position to his son, if he won the elections Continental.

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