Safa president moves a step closer to the Fifa council
Danny Jordaan wins a legal victory as Hany Abo Rida of Egypt has his attempt to change his entry category declared against the rules
South African Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan has won a legal victory and moved a step closer to a seat on the Fifa council after one of his opponents in the upcoming elections was disqualified. Africa will vote on March 16 at the Confederation of African Football’s (Caf) congress in Ethiopia to decide five places on the Fifa council‚ the all-powerful inner sanctum of world football In a complicated formula‚ there is one place for a representative from Arabic-‚ Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries; another for Francophone nations; and one for Anglophones. The open category will deliver three more representatives‚ one of them female. Candidates for the council elections had to state‚ when they submitted their nomination‚ which category they wished to contest — either the language group or the open contest. Egypt Football Association vice-president Hany Abo Rida‚ who has been a Fifa executive committee member since 2009‚ entered in the Arabic-speaking categor...
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