Former CAF President Dies At 77

Issa Hayatou, the long-serving former president of the Confederation of African Football, has died at the age of 77.

 

Hayatou was a member of the Switzerland-based organisation’s executive committee, now known as the FIFA council, from 1990 to 2017.

 

He was an acting president of FIFA between 2015 and 2016 after Sepp Blatter was suspended.

 

The Cameroonian spent 29 years as the head of the football governing body, assuming the presidency in 1988 and leaving office in 2017.

 

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