Jordaan Eyes CAF Committee Seat

South Africa’s 2010 World Cup chief Danny Jordaan, has made another bid this weekend for a major post.

Jordaan is a candidate for a place on the Confederation of African Football’s executive committee at yesterday’s congress in Marrakech, Morocco.

“I think I have a good chance but it is the congress who must decide,” he said.

It is his second attempt to get a place in African football’s inner cabinet after a trouncing two years ago at a previous election in Sudan.

He also failed to win one of the places reserved for Africa on the Fifa executive committee, withdrawing his candidacy at the last minute in political horse trading that looked to backfire on him.

“I think I have a good chance but it is the congress who must decide”

Last year, Jordaan gave up a bid for the presidency of the southern African regional body Cosafa in a further blow to his image.

But the 61-year-old has a stronger chance this time after a decision to award an extra place on the committee to a southern African representative.

The elections are the only major business on the congress agenda and will see Caf president Issa Hayatou returned unopposed for another four-year term.

An attempt by his rival Jacques Anouma to overturn a decision to disqualify non-executive committee members from the election was rejected earlier this week by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Former Fifa member Amadou Diakite of Mali, banned for two years in November 2010 by world football’s governing body over allegations of bribery in the vote-buying scandal surrounding the bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, is also standing for a place on the Caf executive committee.