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December 4 – Fernando Simões has succeeded Artur Almeida e Silva because the boss of Angolan soccer after successful the presidential elections on the Angolan Soccer Federation (FAF).
Simões defeated each the incumbent Almeida e Silva and Norberto de Castro with 128 votes. De Castro acquired simply 9 votes and Almeida e Silva 113. He ran a programme of professionalising the Angolan league, creating the ladies’s sport and ending the observe that the golf equipment should cowl the prices of the referees.
Simões will serve a four-year time period, ending the controversial eight-year reign of Almeida e Silva. In 2015, Almeida e Silva was convicted by a Luanda courtroom for trying to embezzle $10 million from telecoms firm Unitel.
He received re-election as FAF president in 2020, however a neighborhood courtroom suspended the election consequence. FAF’s electoral fee had barred candidate Norberto de Castro from standing. Then FIFA’s chief member associations officer Véron Mosengo-Omba wrote to FAF that the federation ran the chance of being suspended over third-party interference. Almeida e Silva can also be the president of Cosafa.
On the sphere, Angola will play within the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after successful Group F within the qualifiers. It is going to be their tenth participation within the continental finals. On the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, the Angolans reached the final eight however exited the competitors in opposition to eventual finalists Nigeria.
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