CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe has expressed saddened following Hayatou's passing.
FILE PHOTO: FIFA's then-acting president Issa Hayatou leaves the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland February 24, 2016.
Former Confederation of African Football President, Issa Hayatou has died at the age of 77 on Thursday.Hayatou led CAF from 1988 to 2017. In a statement, Motsepe has requested that the CAF flag and the flags of all CAF Member Associations fly at half-mast for a period of five days. “I express my deepest personal condolences and the condolences of the 54 CAF Member Associations, on the passing of CAF former President, President Issa Hayatou; to his family, the Fédération Camerounaise de Football, its President Samuel Eto’o and the people of Cameroon.”
“CAF and African Football will forever be grateful to President Hayatou for his enormous and far-reaching contributions, over many years to the development and growth of football in Africa. He will forever live in our hearts and minds,” adds Dr Motsepe. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies.
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