South Sudan Football Association

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South Sudan Football Association
Association logo
founding 2011
FIFA accession 2012
CAF membership 2012
president Chabur Goc Alei (suspended)
Adelmo Wani Agustino (interim)
Secretary General Otto Anthony
National teams Men's national team

The South Sudan Football Association (SSFA) is the football association in South Sudan . It was founded in 2011 and joined the CAF in 2012 and FIFA in the same year . The South Sudan Football Association is the youngest African member of FIFA.

history

In April 2011, the Minister of Youth and Sports of South Sudan, Makuac Teny Youk , arranged for the Provisional Football Association to be established to administer soccer in South Sudan.

This association organized, marketed and administered all affairs of South Sudanese football for one year. The president of the association was Oliver Mori Benjamin , the vice president was Doub Foj Jok , the general secretary was Rudolf Andera Oujika and the treasurer was Jaden Jada Solomon . The organization consisted of 17 members in total.

In May 2011, Malesh Soro was introduced as the first coach of the South Sudanese national football team.

In April 2012, Chabur Goc Alei replaced Oliver Mori Benjamin as President of the SSAF. In November 2016, Alei was suspended by the board of directors because he was accused, among other things, of transferring US $ 400,000 from association funds to an unknown private account. In April 2017, Adelmo Wani Agustino was elected as his successor: he will initially fill this office on a temporary basis until the allegations against Alei have been clarified.

Memberships

In February 2011, CAF President Issa Hayatou commented on the possibility that South Sudan could join the CAF:

“We are reading up with the idea of ​​having a new member. We will send a delegation to study the situation and our actions will emanate from their report. "

“We are getting used to the idea of ​​having a new member. We are sending a delegation to investigate the situation and our decision will depend on your report. "

- Issa Hayatou

On February 8, 2012, the CAF announced that the members of the CAF would discuss whether the SSFA could become another member of the association. Two days later it was announced that the South Sudan Football Association would join the association. On May 9th of the same year they joined the CECAFA . On May 25, FIFA announced that South Sudan would become the 209th member of FIFA. Of 176 voting members, only four voted against membership of the SSFA

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Röhn: "You journalists are looking for trouble". Spiegel Online, May 25, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  2. ^ South Africa's Jordaan withdraws from the Fifa Council race. BBC, March 7, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017. (English)
  3. ↑ Interview with Blatter and Hayatou on cafonline.com accessed on February 22, 2013
  4. ↑ Press release on supersport.com accessed on February 22, 2013
  5. ^ Announcement on fifa.com accessed on February 22, 2013