Danny Jordaan has retained his seat as the South Africa Football Association (SAFA) president for the next four years.
In what seemed like a one-horse race, the incumbent managed 186 votes out of the 221 cast at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Outgoing Safa Vice-president Ria Ledwaba came in second with 27 votes while Safa’s Tshwane president Solly Mohlabeng only managed to get eight.
Jordaan was intially elected as the new president of Safa in September 2013,succeeding Kirsten Nematandani.
In the last elective congress, the veteran football administrator ran unopposed after Ace Ngcobo withdrew at the eleventh hour.
Jordaan came into South African football administration in early 1980’s and served as president or vice president of various football boards upto 1992.
He was elected the Chief Executive Officer of the South African Football Association (SAFA) in 1997 and went all along to be elected SAFA president in 2013.
He has also served FIFA in several capacities: as General Coordinator of the World Youth Cup (now know as the FIFA Under 20 World Cup) and the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2001 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan. He was a FIFA Match Commissioner for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany as well as being a member of the FIFA World Cup Organising Committee in 2006.
The experienced administrator he also served on the Marketing and television committee of FIFA since 1998, as well, as a memas a member of the FIFA World Cup Organising Committee for the 2010 and 2014.
The South African FA are yet to confirm who will serve as Jordaan’s vice-presidents (four) as well as the new NEC members.
