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Ahmad Ahmad Becomes CAF President
Ahmad Ahmad, the President of Malagasy Football Federation (FMF), has emerged the new president of Confederation of African Football (CAF) after defeating the incumbent Issa Hayatou in Thursday’s election held in Addis –Ababa, Ethiopia.
The wave of change reverberating throughout modern society claimed its latest victim as Ahmad Ahmad was elected the new head of Confederation of African Football (CAF), denying Issa Hayatou, the last of the old generation leaders in world football, his eighth term at the helm of the continental body.
Ahmad polled 34 votes, while Hayatou garnered 20 in the keenly contested election to break Hayatou’s 29-year reign and give African football a new leader for the first time in three decades
