{"id":847817,"date":"2025-05-12T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/patrice-motsepe-re-elected-unopposed-as-caf-president-for-second-term\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T02:12:45","slug":"patrice-motsepe-re-elected-unopposed-as-caf-president-for-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/patrice-motsepe-re-elected-unopposed-as-caf-president-for-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrice Motsepe Re-Elected \u2018Unopposed\u2019 As CAF President For Second Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>South African businessman, Patrice Motsepe has been re-elected as the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), running unopposed for a second four-year term.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/03\/12153116\/Patrice-Motsepe.webp\" alt=\"Patrice Motsepe Re-Elected 'Unopposed' As CAF President For Second Term\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Patrice Motsepe Re-Elected 'Unopposed' As CAF President For Second Term 1\"><\/p>\n<p>His reappointment was confirmed during CAF\u2019s extraordinary general assembly in Cairo on Wednesday, March 12, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Patrice Motsepe, who first took office in 2021, replaced Ahmad Ahmad, the former CAF president who was suspended by FIFA over financial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>A billionaire mining magnate and owner of Mamelodi Sundowns, Motsepe has focused on reforming African football, improving governance, and strengthening CAF\u2019s financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>CAF\u2019s Secretary-General, Veron Mosengo-Omba, praised Motsepe\u2019s leadership, crediting him with transforming the organization from what he described as a \u201ctoxic body\u201d into a more structured and financially stable institution.<\/p>\n<p>While Motsepe\u2019s re-election was unopposed, CAF also held elections for its executive committee, where Cameroonian football legend Samuel Eto\u2019o secured a seat.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly also elected representatives for the FIFA Council, further shaping the future of African football governance.<\/p>\n<p>KanyiDily recalls that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanyidaily.com\/2024\/12\/lookman-wins-caf-player-of-the-year-award-nnadozie-emerges-best-goalkeeper.html\">Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles forward, Ademola Lookman won the best Player of the Year at the 2024 Confederation<\/a> of African Football (CAF) Awards in Marrakech, Morocco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Tobias Sylvester <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanyidaily.com\/2025\/03\/patrice-motsepe-re-elected-unopposed-as-caf-president-for-second-term.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African businessman, Patrice Motsepe has been re-elected as the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), running unopposed for a second four-year term. His reappointment was confirmed during CAF\u2019s extraordinary general assembly in Cairo on Wednesday, March 12, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in attendance. Patrice Motsepe, who first took office in 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":847818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109188,95264],"tags":[109187,115658],"class_list":["post-847817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motsepe","category-patrice","tag-motsepe","tag-patrice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}