{"id":1066473,"date":"2022-04-25T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/ivorian-football-federation-elects-idriss-yacine-diallo-as-new-president\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T14:09:12","slug":"ivorian-football-federation-elects-idriss-yacine-diallo-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/25\/ivorian-football-federation-elects-idriss-yacine-diallo-as-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivorian Football Federation elects Idriss Yacine Diallo as new President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/000_328T68V-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Idriss Yacine Diallo\" title=\"Idriss Yacine Diallo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idriss Yacine Diallo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Idriss Yacine Diallo has been elected as\u00a0the president of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Football Federation, following a second round of voting in Abidjan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Ivorian Football Federation polled 63 votes against his challenger Sory Diabat\u00e9 who polled 61 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba didn\u2019t get enough votes in the elections to become new president of Ivorian Football Federation and dropped out in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea legend now has failed failed twice and could not join the list of former footballers like Samuel Eto\u2019o, Denis Obua (Uganda), Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia), Leodgar Tenga (Tanzania), Walter Nyamilandu and Congolese Jean-Michael M\u2019Bono who later become President of their various country\u2019s football governing body.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Iddris Yacine Diallo will lead the Ivorian Football Federation for the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2EnA3AMHibs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oda Tension: MP calls for calm and urges party elders for swift resolution of impasse (23-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2EnA3AMHibs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idriss Yacine Diallo Idriss Yacine Diallo has been elected as\u00a0the president of the C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Football Federation, following a second round of voting in Abidjan on Saturday. The President of the Ivorian Football Federation polled 63 votes against his challenger Sory Diabat\u00e9 who polled 61 votes. Former Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba didn\u2019t get enough votes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[9978,7798,5876,1542,9979,9704,275,9980],"class_list":["post-1066473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-diallo","tag-elects","tag-federation","tag-football","tag-idriss","tag-ivorian","tag-president","tag-yacine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}