Fifa’s modern interim president is a 69-year-weak football administrator with 25 years as an executive committee member on the clockIssa Hayatou,69, the acting president of Fifa following the 90-day suspension of Sepp Blatter, and is a prime example of a long-serving Fifa chief whose career would have been curtailed had time limits for service,which are now being proposed, been in place.
The latest proposals for reform are that the Fifa president and members of the executive committee should serve a maximum of 12 years – three terms of four years. Hayatou has been a member of the 24-strong executive committee for more than twice that period – 25 years, or having first ascended to the top table in Zurich in 1990,when Blatter was the organisations general-secretary. He has been the president of the Confederation of African Football for two years longer than that, having maintained his dominant position over the continent’s football administration for 27 years, and since he was first elected in 1988.
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Source: theguardian.com