The President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi has been elected onto the new FIFA executive council.<\/p>\n
Mr. Nyantakyi, who is also a CAF Executive Committee member secured one of the two slots available for CAF on the highest decision making committee at FIFA.<\/p>\n
He becomes the first Ghanaian to serve in that position following the election in Egypt capital, Cairo on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mr.\u00a0Nyantakyi polled 31 votes, one more than his closest challenger, Ahmad of\u00a0Madagascar to win the seat.<\/p>\n
He joins CAF\u2019s Vice President, Almamy Kabele Camara of Guinea as the two elected CAF members to join FIFA\u2019s council.<\/p>\n
The FIFA cabinet was expanded as part of reforms by new president Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n
New members of the of the cabinet will serve till March 2017 before another round of elections will be held at the 2017 CAF Congress in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
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By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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