Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:20
Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou has been appointed Chairman of the 2010 World Cup Organising Committee.
Local Organising Committee Chief Executive Danny Jordaan has welcomed the appointment and feeling throughout South Africa is positive.
In 2001 Hayatou was elected a member of the International Olympic Committee during the Moscow session having previously served in the structures of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa.
He is a former athlete and basketball player and has served as an athletics trainer before he turned his attentions to football administration.
He is possibly best known for having fallen asleep during a World Cup match in France 1998, which was picked up by television cameras and broadcast globally.
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