FOOTBALL
Why Danny Jordaan lost out on the Fifa council job
Football Association of Malawi president Walter Nyamilandu wins the vacant seat for Anglophone African countries
SA Football Association (Safa) president Danny Jordaan lost his bid for a Fifa council seat on Sunday‚ beaten by a rogue candidate after a second round of voting at the Confederation of African (Caf) football congress in Sharm-el-Sheikh‚ Egypt. Football Association of Malawi president Walter Nyamilandu won the vacant seat for Anglophone African countries on the cabinet of world football’s governing body with a majority 35 votes to Jordaan’s 18 in a second round of voting. Jordaan had been the preferred candidate of the Southern African region but Nyamilandu did not stand down as had been hoped. Instead he became an alternate anti-Jordaan candidate for Caf president Ahmad Ahmad, who received a boost to his re-election hopes with the victory of his preferred candidate. Jordaan was always up against it after the SA government told him to vote against Morocco’s attempt to win the right to host the 2026 World Cup. SA’s strained diplomatic relations saw Jordaan cast the Safa vote at June’...
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