Didier Drogba will not be the next president of the FIF.
In the first round of the election, Idriss Diallo came out on top with 59 votes out of 130 cast, ahead of Sory Diabaté who obtained 50 votes.
Didier Drogba is third with only 21 votes.
In the absence of an absolute majority, a second round must be held in the wake of the first, between Idriss Diallo, senior leader of the FIF in the 2000s, and Sory Diabaté, another executive of the institution.
Widely supported by the population and, according to several observers, by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the International Football Federation (Fifa), Didier Drogba failed to convince the presidents of Ivorian clubs, who constituted the overwhelming majority of voters.
He has been criticized in recent weeks for not knowing enough about local football and for having campaigned at a minimum, without plowing the ground enough.
This election is supposed to put an end to a long crisis of governance at the head of the FIF.
It had been postponed many times since 2020, due to an imbroglio on the candidate sponsorship system which had then blocked the candidacy of Didier Drogba.
The FIF had been put under supervision in December 2020 by Fifa which had set up a "Standardization Committee".
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