Kamanga Gets Clearance To Vie For Seat In FIFA Council

The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president, Andrew Kamanga, has been cleared in an ethics check to stand for the FIFA Council position.

The Confederation of African Football said in an internal memo seen by Ducor Sports on Wednesday that Kamanga was among five officials who passed integrity tests ahead of election ahead of a special CAF meeting in Morocco on March 12.

Kamanga, who sits on the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee, will compete against candidates from Malawi (COSAFA), Nigeria, Gambia (West Africa), Kenya, and Tanzania (East Africa) for the English-speaking representative post.

The slots for Africa on the FIFA executive committee include one for the CAF president who automatically becomes the FIFA vice-president and another for a female candidate.

The remaining six slots for CAF are divided into language blocks, broken down as English, Arabic and French. Each has two slots for candidates to vie for.

Meanwhile, FIFA has cleared South African Patrice Motsepe and Mauritania’s Ahmed Yahya to run for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) presidency despite previous doubts over the duo’s eligibility.

FIFA’s Review Committee has said both men can contest the 12 March elections, where they will take on Ivorian Jacques Anouma and Senegal FA president Augustin Senghor.