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Jordaan misses out on FIFA ExCo place

Danny Jordaan, who steered the organising committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, has lost out in his bid to join the executive committee of world football’s governing body.

Jordaan came fourth out of five candidates in a vote to choose two delegates to join FIFA’s ruling panel, with Mohamed Raouraoua and Jacques Anouma securing the two places. Raouraoua will replace Amos Adamu, who FIFA suspended in the build-up to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests.

The vote took place at the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) 33rd ordinary general assembly. Jordaan received only 10 votes from the 53 federations that make up the CAF.

Raouraoua, from Algeria, won the election with 39 votes, while Anouma, from the Ivory Coast, picked up 35 votes. Suketu Patel (Seychelles) came third with 12 votes, followed by Jordaan and then Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima (Nigeria) with five votes.