Abedi Pele wants Issa Hayatou out as CAF president
Posted On Thursday, 7th April 2011
Abedi Pele wants Caf president Issa Hayatou to step aside for younger guys
Ghana legend Abedi Pele has performed a sharp u-turn by lashing out at the president of Caf president Issa Hayatou, asking him to step aside for younger people to run the affairs Africa’s football governing body.
The three-time African Footballer of the Year issued a scathing rebuke against the Cameroonian administrator accusing him of hijacking Caf.
The ex-Ghana captain questioned how sponsorship money acquired from television and corporate sponsors have been spent saying it is worthless for a country to win the Africa Cup of Nations title.
Hayatou, who turns 65 in August, has been at the helm of the affairs of African football since 1988.
Abedi, who was previously a vocal opponent of Hayatou, supported the continuation of Hayatou’s reign when he was re-elected two years ago.
However, the Ghanaians legend says it is time for Hayatou and his cronies who are part of the older generation to leave office.
“If you are old, 65 or 70, pave the way for the young ones who have fresh ideas to better manage the game,” Abedi Pele told the Africa Watch magazine.
The legend says they must not be allowed to “hijack the game in Africa and think that it’s their own.”
Abedi says the Africa Cup of Nations has been made worthless because there is no prizemoney attached to winning Africa’s flagship football tournament.
“When you win, you don’t get anything. You only get an empty trophy,” Abedi said in the monthly magazine
“What is CAF using our sponsorship monies for?,” he asked.
Pele, a three-time African Footballer of the Year, was an official ambassador for the 2010 World Cup when he supported Hayatou re-election two years ago.
He is also a member of the football committee of the game’s world governing body Fifa.
When Hayatou challenged Sepp Blatter for the presidency of Fifa in 2002, Pele urged African countries to support Blatter.
Source: www.afrikansoccer.com
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Abedi is on a rampage.
You may be right, but going around lambasting people is not a viable hobby.
CAN SOMEONE TELL THIS GUY TO GET LOSE SHEO I DONT CARE WHO U ARE. YOU MIX UP BS BIG TIME AND NOW WE HAVE PPL THAT TAKING FOR AS AND U STILL WANT TO COME MIX UP AGAIN WHAT WRONG WITH YOU.
Abedi is right. Issa Hayatou must go. CAF is not his personal property. 30yrs+ is enough. He must give way to someone else to perform.
Abaa!!
i dont think Abedi is wrong, the man is old and more so he doesnt like the west african countries, lets pray we will get a fresh mind, blood, commitment n good leadership for CAF.
@ cool, your visible resentment of someone doesn’t mean his ideas too no matter how good they may seem should also be ignored. They guy is absolutely right. Don’t you have eyes to see what is going around the world with the winds of change and resentment for dictatorship? Issa Hayatou is simply a dictator and he must go.He has overstayed his welcome.
yessssssssssssssssssss Abedi you have a good point[il a des idees archai'ques,hayatu doit ceder la place a la jeunesse.]He has bought all the refrees in africa………..bien joue abedi….
In fact, I will so happy the day Hayatou will cease to be CAF president. He is part of all the problems we have in African Football today. Just take a look at clubs that participate in the African Champions League and the Confederation Cup competitions. Those clubs get nothing for participating in those competitions, except those who make it to the group stages. Even those who do well to win the trophies get pea nuts. Where do all the monies go to? Look at the kind of injustice teams have suffered in African football. The man has no brains to manage football; he must leave. 30+ years is enough. CAF is not for his grandfather.
The younger generation must prove that we are capable.
This is right.Hayatou cannot hold this post over 20 years. Abedi’s call for Hayatou to resign is correct and over due. Abedi I support you.
Hyatou has nothing to offer the continent. Can someone pls tell me what this alhaji has brought to the continent, with respect to the game? Our Champs league and the CAF cup are as useless as it can be. AFCON or CAN tournament never improves. But for the european clubs helping our players, the AFCON/CAN would have been as ordinary as anything. If you care to know, consider the CHAN tournament. HE MUST GO NOW. If possible, there should be an uprising.
This time around, i support Abedi Pele 100 o/o Issa Hayattou must leave office as soon as possible and give way to the young generation. Issa Hayattou was always biased aginst Ghanaian teams, especailly in awards winning, for example how he managed to dribble passed Asamoah Gyan and gave it to Eto because of Abedi Pele. In other words he is not circumspect as a C.AF Chairman and has cling on power for far too long.
Abedi u are right!this Cameronian tyrant must go and pave way for young dynamic people to run the affairs of African soccer.It will only take a wise man to recognise the wisdom in ur head.This Mugabe man has brougth the African game into disgrace as compared to that of Europe and else where.No wonder most of our stars often refuse to participate with a whole lot of excuses.This CAF Mafia must definately go.
@ cool have you read the story? and why are you accusimg Abedi Pele? i learnt something from you that you are ignorant from what the story is about, you just accuse him without reason, because you hate him so if he’s saying something good you don’t care just accuse him, but for your imformation what Abedi is saying is that will benefit the football of Ghana and Africa as whole, go back and read the story very well before you said something.
Abedi is absolutely right, there are certain things that you have to make comments on it in public and Abedi has done that, how come CAF itself have never told Hayatou to step down?…cus they scared to say whats right….Hayatou is running CAF like a typical african president, he wants to hold on to power to he feels like going or till he can’t handle it no more, there gotta be some type of presidency term, just like any democractic country and govt…….Hayatou has done enough, he should step aside for younger onces to run CAF, and abedi is also right on the sponsorship $$$, what a hell has CAF been doing with it????….And kwabena Pofilio is right!!…..hayatou has really done nuthin to improve CAF, and the game itself on the continent, Africa have some of the best players in the world, playing in europe and the CAN is nowhere compared to Copa America, Euro Cup, Concacaf, etc…….CAF need to be revolutionarized into a modern 22nd century Confederation…..to me hayatou has been useless all these years as CAF president.
Oh yes Abedi is 100% right to have asked for that but i dont think Abedi himself has the moral right in judging people like Issa Hayatou and Kwasi Nyantakyi when only a few years back his team FC Nania could buy a match and score 21goals to nil, why can almighty Barcelona even score 21goals to nil when they host okwahu united, never. so let smbody worth tell Issa Hayatou to get down.
We need people like Danny Jordan to run the affairs of African football.
Abedi said waht was on his mind, but was he not one of the ppl who voted him in, and only two yr in the new term finally his brains and eyes tells him he aint the right man, excuse me to say maybe they took bride to vote him back, and if so, then they might do the same for him to win the nxt elections, becuz i know its ppl who vote and not him just winning it without any competition for the past 30yrs. we ii all c the winner in the nxt elections. peace. haha yatu.