Fatma Samoura, FIFA Secretary-General, spoke in a viral video said to have been shot in Super Falcons dressing room.
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The former Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Fatma Samoura, who worked on United Nations projects for 21 years before becoming the first-ever African and woman to hold the role of Secretary General at FIFA in its 116-year history, was joined by fellow Hall of Fame honourees Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of General Motors and Ginni Rometty, Executive Chairman of IBM, at the online 2020 IWF Hall of Fame Awards Gala.
This was after a request from the region’s football federation amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus
FIFA is ending its six-month intervention in African soccer’s governing body, it said on Sunday, after the mission to speed up the reform of football on the continent was “successfully completed”.
Hayatou led CAF for 29 years from 1988 to 2017, when he was replaced by Madagascan official Ahmad
Hasan Bility, who is from Liberia and a CAF executive committee member for last two years, said he will ask the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport to declare invalid the agreement by which FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura will be sent on a secondment to overhaul the African governing body.
Amaju Pinnick, the President of Nigeria Football Federation, has been removed from his position as First Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football.
FIFA last month took the unprecedented move of announcing it would jointly administer African football with CAF and would send its Senegalese Secretary-General, Fatma Samoura, on a ninth-month secondment to overhaul the African body.
Stricter punishments against racism and other discriminatory behaviour was a key part of FIFA’s updated disciplinary code which takes effect from Monday.
Zimbabwe players are threatening to boycott the opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations against hosts Egypt because they claim they have not been paid.
A drastic and dramatic overhaul of African football is expected to be announced on Thursday, the eve of the kickoff of the African Cup of Nations, in the wake of corruption scandals consuming the Confederation of African Football.
Secretary General of world football –ruling body, FIFA, Ms Fatma Samoura arrived in Nigeria on Saturday, ahead of more than 20 Presidents of FIFA’s Member Associations across the African continent for Monday’s 2nd AITEO-NFF Football Awards taking place at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The second edition of the NFF-AITEO Football Awards, which inaugural edition held on February 19, 2018 at the Grand Ballroom of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island in Lagos, has now been scheduled for April 1, 2019 at the same venue.
He was one of the few senior members of previous FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s administration who kept his position under his successor Gianni Infantino.
A 1-2 loss to Argentina in the last Group D game at Saint Petersburg stadium sent the team to a third place finish with three points behind their South American counterparts with four points.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that an estimated 95 per cent of the stadium crowd of 44,190 must have been rooting for Poland during the Group H match.
Ready to greet the plane were VIP guests such as FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura, FIFA Legend and 2002 World Cup winner Gilberto Silva, FIFA Ambassador for the Trophy Tour Victoria Lopyreva and Japan Football Association President Kozo Tashima.
The Summit, one of only 12 being staged across the universe between November 2017 and March 2018, is part of FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s vision of “bringing FIFA back to football and football back to FIFA”
A statement on the CAF website on Friday disclosed that the decision by FIFA was contained in a July 6, 2017 letter signed by Fatma Samoura, the FIFA Secretary General.