October 7 – A letter sent to members of the executive committee of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and which has been circulated around member associations has caused concern and fear in Africa’s national associations over the ongoing future of CAF, and Africa’s right to govern its own football eco-system within Africa.
The letter warns African leaders “not (to) be accomplices in the disappearance of CAF”, that they have been “duped” by FIFA president Gianni Infantino and that the CAF Super League is not based on credible or sustainable revenue and will only cannibalize the CAF Champions League and the CAF Cup.
It warns African football’s member nations and their representative not to be “complicit in a suicide”.
Within African football there has been a rapidly growing feeling that FIFA’s dominating administrative presence on the continent and the abject failure to successfully launch new competitions while seeing existing competitions lose revenue and status, could spell the end of CAF.
That would be the end of Africans governing their own game on their own continent via their own elected representatives. Many argue that is already the case and that FIFA’s heavy handed executive has subjugated Africa’s independence and right to govern itself via unfulfilled promises, poor and non-transparent decision making, and incentivising or bullying African leaders to fall into line.
FIFA’s presence in Africa has been aggressively felt under Infantino’s FIFA regime who have made a catalogue of poor interventions in the continent from the heavily FIFA-supported election of now-disgraced Ahmad Ahmad to the CAF presidency, the subsequent disastrous insertion of former FIFA general secretary Fatma Samoura as some kind of special envoy to the continent, the long term failure to find an equivalent or better financial replacement for Lagardere’s marketing contract which was cancelled at the behest of FIFA, the centralisation of…
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Author : Paul Nicholson
Publish date : 2024-10-08 04:02:47
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