South African businessman Patrice Motsepe, who is standing for re-election as president of CAF, has marked his first term in office by a conspicuous absence.
Alternating between politics, business and sport, his approach is causing frustration within African soccer.
CAF : The ghostly management of Patrice Motsepe (episode 1/3)
Overlooking the Cameroonian capital, with Mount Fébé and its seven hills as a backdrop, Patrice Motsepe waits in his presidential suite on the top floor of the Hilton Hotel. He’s been waiting a long time for this moment. It’s December 21, 2021, and the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) is preparing for the challenges ahead.
This affair would bring to $25 million the losses recorded by the soccer body over the 2022-2023 year, a far cry from the $9 million forecast enthusiastically announced at the beginning of August by Véron Mosengo-Omba.
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