Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals during the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Credit Image: © Prensa Internacional/ZUMA Wire)
Patrice Motsepe denies wanting to move CAF HQ from Cairo to Johannesburg
CAF presidency candidate and SA billionaire Patrice Motsepe has denied that he would seek to move CAF headquarters from Cairo to Johannesburg if elected.
Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals during the Milken Institute Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Credit Image: © Prensa Internacional/ZUMA Wire)
Confederation of African Football (CAF) presidency candidate and South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe has denied that he would seek to move CAF headquarters from Cairo to Johannesburg if elected.
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Patrice Motsepe is one of four candidates for the post which will be decided at 12 March elections in Morocco.
Motsepe is running against Jacques Anouma of the Ivory Coast‚ Augustin Senghor of Senegal and Mauritanian Ahmed Yahya for the presidency.
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On the point of moving the CAF headquarters, Motsepe, the owner of Mamelodi Sundowns, said it was important to acknowledge “the history, the pride and the good work of the people of Cairo”.
“I am going to at all times make a humble contribution to use sport to unite all Africans,” Motsepe told a press conference.
“We will succeed and make African football globally competitive. The test for me… is what the results are going to be two, three, four years from now,” he said.
Focusing on policy development, Motsepe outlined plans to use soccer to develop women’s soccer, invest in infrastructure across Africa, and boost tourism and business.
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