{"id":273599,"date":"2011-01-12T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=46519"},"modified":"2011-01-12T14:16:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:16:05","slug":"nyantakyi-to-fend-off-challenge-for-caf-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/12\/nyantakyi-to-fend-off-challenge-for-caf-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyantakyi To Fend Off Challenge For CAF Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Ghana Football  Association, (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi, will have to fend off challenge from  three other candidates for the Zone West B Confederation of African  Football (CAF) Executive Committee slot.<br \/>\nThe GNA Sports  can confirm that Nyantakyi will be up against Benin\u2019s Anjorin  Moucharafou, Togolese\u2019 Tata Avlessi and Hima Souley of Niger for the  slot when delegates gather for the 32nd Ordinary General Assembly next  month.<br \/>\nThe GFA President is slugging it out to succeed  retiring Togolese incumbent, General Seyi Memene when delegates from 53  national associations congregate at the session slated for Khartoum,  Sudan on Wednesday, February 23.<br \/>\nNyantakyi will face the  stiffest competition from Moucharafou who is regarded as the favourite  to the throne due to his closeness and personal relationship with the  CAF President, Issah Hayatou.<br \/>\nThe Ghana FA President will be  hoping to succeed where former three times African Football of the  Year, Abedi Ayew Pele failed when he succumbed to West African Football  Union (WAFU) President, Amos Adamu at the January 22 Congress in Tunis  when the latter beat the Ghanaian by 12 votes for the same position in  2004.<br \/>\nGhana qualified for the last two FIFA World Cups in  Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010 under the Presidency of Nyantakyi, a  member of Africa Cup of Nations Organizing Committee and Executive  Member of WAFU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Ghana Football Association, (GFA) Kwesi Nyantakyi, will have to fend off challenge from three other candidates for the Zone West B Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee slot. 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