Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
The organisation that runs African football is in absolute chaos
The African cup of Nations starts tomorrow in Egypt as the off the field crisis reaches new unheard of levels of total breakdown.
The Confederation of African Football (their equivalent of UEFA) have said they cannot run football in Africa anymore and asked the world governing body FIFA to step in and run it for them.
FIFA have sent their general secretary to Africa until next January to try and run African football.
There have been numerous scandals, involving some of the 56 football associations which make up the confederation, which culminated two weeks ago with the president of their governing body being arrested in Paris. He's facing allegations of financial mismanagement and sexual harassment which he denies. That apparently was the final straw as far as FIFA were concerned.
FIFA are perhaps exactly the last organisation in the world you might look to for guidance on stamping out corruption and backhanders.
Perhaps now FIFA can get Sepp Blatter's former president in waiting and former UEFA president, Michel Platini, now he isn't in jail (as of now), to tell them exactly how things should be run, backhanders by all means - but get your alibis sorted first!
The African cup of Nations starts tomorrow in Egypt as the off the field crisis reaches new unheard of levels of total breakdown.
The Confederation of African Football (their equivalent of UEFA) have said they cannot run football in Africa anymore and asked the world governing body FIFA to step in and run it for them.
FIFA have sent their general secretary to Africa until next January to try and run African football.
There have been numerous scandals, involving some of the 56 football associations which make up the confederation, which culminated two weeks ago with the president of their governing body being arrested in Paris. He's facing allegations of financial mismanagement and sexual harassment which he denies. That apparently was the final straw as far as FIFA were concerned.
FIFA are perhaps exactly the last organisation in the world you might look to for guidance on stamping out corruption and backhanders.
Perhaps now FIFA can get Sepp Blatter's former president in waiting and former UEFA president, Michel Platini, now he isn't in jail (as of now), to tell them exactly how things should be run, backhanders by all means - but get your alibis sorted first!
