Issa Hayatou

Issa Hayatou (2015)

Issa Hayatou (born August 9, 1946 in Garoua , Cameroon ) is a Cameroonian sports official . He was active as an athlete until the 1960s . He was President of the Confédération Africaine de Football from 1988 to 2017 and served as FIFA President on an interim basis from October 2015 to February 2016 .

Career

Issa Hayatou was born in Cameroon in 1946. He began to play sports early in his youth . At the age of 18 he won competitions as a track and field athlete in the disciplines of 400-meter and 800-meter races . He was also a member of the Cameroonian national basketball team until 1971 . During this time he also took part in the All Africa Games in Brazzaville . He also became a successful soccer player at his university during this time .

After completing his physical education teacher studies, he became a professor at the Lycée Leclerc in Yaoundé in 1973 . A year later he became General Secretary of the Cameroon Football Association and held this post until 1983. In 1982 he became Director of the Cameroon Sports Organization in the Ministry of Youth and Sport. He has been President of the Cameroonian Football Association since 1985, where he became a member of the Executive Committee in 1986 and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee in 1990 . He has been Vice President of FIFA since 1992 . At the same time, he was also President of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic football tournaments in the FIFA and vice-president of the FIFA Committee for Security and Fair Play and member of the FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee FIFA. After the suspension of Sepp Blatter in October 2015, Hayatou became the new FIFA President on an interim basis as Senior Vice-President until Gianni Infantino was elected on February 26, 2016. In 2017, Hayatou was voted out of office as President of the African Football Association.

In 1997, Hayatou became a member of the Committee on Women and Sport of the International Olympic Committee and head of Cameroonian sport delegations at some sporting events. In 2001 he finally became a member of the International Olympic Committee . A year later he ran for the presidency of FIFA, but lost to Sepp Blatter . On November 3, 2007, Hayatou was awarded an honorary degree by the Ladoke Akintola Technical College in Ogbomosho ( Oyo ), Nigeria .

In November 2018, the 72-year-old was sentenced to a fine of almost 25 million euros for the illegal sale of TV rights.

Private

Hayatou has four children and lives with his wife in Yaoundé in Cameroon.

Web links

• Portrait of Issa Hayatou on fifa.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait on fifa.com ( Memento from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Blatters successor also charged nzz.ch, October 8, 2015
3. ^ President Hayatou voted out of office after 29 years spiegel.de March 16, 2017
4. ↑ Information ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on garf-afrique.com 
5. ↑ Illegal TV rights trade - Fifa president has to pay almost 25 million euros (November 28, 2018)
6. ↑ Fine for ex-FIFA interim boss (November 28, 2018)