Ghana FA president Kwesi “Mr Undefeatable” Nyantakyi has never lost any football-related election following his latest triumph to serve on the powerful FIFA Executive Council.
Nyantakyi, 47, showed his growing popularity among CAF aficionados after emerging one of the two winners to serve on the council for the next six-months after Thursday’s elections in Cairo, Egypt.
His latest achievement adds to the endless stock of qualities that have endeared him to the top echelon of the continent’s governing class.
The ever-smiling and intelligent lawyer boasts of several eye-catching qualities including humility, openness and a born or natural leader which keeps him at the apex of African football.
The CAF Executive Committee member is also a team player, intelligent, makes people to believe in him and open to modern trends.
Despite this victory not all is well back home as his relationship with the media and the minister of sporst nii Lantey is still tense.
Some Brief history
Kwesi Nyantakyi become the president of the
Ghana Football Association on 30 December
2005. Nyantakyi defeated two other candidates, Ade Coker and Kojo Bonsu. He is
regarded as the most successful Ghana
Football Association boss since its
establishment in 1957. Under his presidency,
Ghana qualified for the 2006 FIFA World Cup,
the first for the country. Ghana again qualified
for the subsequent 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa and the 2014 FIFA World Cup in
Brazil. The Ghana U-20 football team also won
Africa’s first and only U-20 World Cup also
during his stewardship in 2009.
President of WAFU
In 2011, when the then West African Football
Union president, Amos Adamu, was suspended
by FIFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi was given the nod to
be the interim president of WAFU until elections were conducted. When the union conducted its elections on 31 May 2011, Mr. Nyantakyi was elected president for a two-year term. He stood unopposed in the November 2013 elections and was re- appointed for another two-year term as president
International Football Appointments
Nyantakyi has held several international positions in football. The appointments cut
across sub regional, regional to the international state. His appointments include:
President of West African Football Union Zone
B.
Football organiser at the 2012 London
Olympics
Member of FIFA Associations Committee
Match fixing allegations
An undercover investigation led by The Telegraph and Channel 4 accused Kwesi Nyantaky and other officials of the Ghana Federation of match-fixing. According to this
information, the accusations involve just the
international friendlies – thus, the World Cup
matches wouldn’t be affected by the suspictions Kwesi Nyantakyi denied agreeing match fixing allegations by saying that “the report of the newspaper or the media house is entirely not accurate”, because “there is really no cause for alarm as far as I am concerned because nothing untoward has happened involving me or the Federation”
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