ISSA HAYATOU

'Issa Hayatou' is the current president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). He was born on 9 August 1946 in Cameroon and is married with four children.

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Sports career

Administrative career

Sports career

★ 1964 - 1971 Champion at the 400m and 800m; member of the Cameroon national basketball team; football player at the university level.

★ 1965 Member of the Cameroon national basketball team on the occasion of the first All Africa Games in Brazzaville.

Administrative career

★ 1973 - 1974 Coordinator-Professor at the Lycée LECLERC ( YAOUNDE )

★ 1974 - 1983 General Secretary of the Cameroon Football Association

★ 1982 - 1986 Director of Sports of Cameroon (Ministry of Youth and Sports)

★ 1985 - 1988 President of the Cameroon Football Association

★ 1986 Member of the Cameroon Football Association Executive Committee

★ 1988 - today President of the Cameroon Football Association

★ 1990 Member of the FIFA Executive Committee

★ 1992 - today FIFA Vice-President; President of the Organising committee of the Football Olympic Tournaments of FIFA; Vice-President of FIFA Committee for Security and Fair-Play; Member of the World Cup Organising Committee

★ 1997 Member of the Women and Sport Committee of the International Olympic Committee; Head of the Cameroonian sports delegations on several sporting occasions

★ 2001 Elected member of the International Olympic Committee during the Moscow session