{"id":43593,"date":"2025-03-13T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=43593"},"modified":"2025-03-13T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:57:24","slug":"moroccos-fouzi-lekjaa-elected-by-landslide-among-caf-representatives-on-fifa-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/moroccos-fouzi-lekjaa-elected-by-landslide-among-caf-representatives-on-fifa-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco&#8217;s Fouzi Lekjaa Elected by Landslide Among \u201cCAF\u201d Representatives on FIFA Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43594\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morocco-FIFA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morocco-FIFA.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Morocco-FIFA-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em><strong>Cairo &#8211; The president of the \u201cRoyal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF)\u201d, Fouzi Lekjaa, was elected by a landslide (49 votes out of 52) as the top representative of the \u201cConfederation of African Football (CAF)\u201d on the FIFA Council.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The election took place on Wednesday in Cairo during the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the continental football governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Lekjaa secured a wide margin over Egyptian candidate Hani Abou Rida, Niger&#8217;s Djibrilla Hima Hamidou, Mauritania&#8217;s Ahmed Yahya and Djibouti&#8217;s Souleiman Waberi.<\/p>\n<p>Comorian candidate Kanizat Ibrahim secured the seat designated for female representatives.<\/p>\n<p>CAF representatives on the FIFA Council are elected for a term that runs until 2029.<br \/>\nThis extraordinary general assembly was also marked by the re-election of Patrice Motsepe as CAF president.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JiqJnPYppp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-january-2024\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 January 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 January 2024&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-january-2024\/embed\/#?secret=TCNWd8SGyf#?secret=JiqJnPYppp\" data-secret=\"JiqJnPYppp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; The president of the \u201cRoyal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF)\u201d, Fouzi Lekjaa, was elected by a landslide (49 votes out of 52) as the top representative of the \u201cConfederation of African Football (CAF)\u201d on the FIFA Council. The election took place on Wednesday in Cairo during the 14th Extraordinary General Assembly of the continental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6674,3574,1152,980,862,2290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43595,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43593\/revisions\/43595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}