FIFA: "It is not FIFA itself, but individuals who acted wrongly" (Issa Hayatou)

"The press has amplified the problems of FIFA. It is not FIFA itself, but individuals who acted wrongly. There are many people at FIFA, the majority elsewhere, that have not been affected at all by what happened. We are initiating reforms so that there is no more of this sort of behaviour concerning our institution," said Issa Hayatou, the acting president of FIFA, on 04/11/2015.

As the longest serving vice-president on the FIFA Executive Committee, the Cameroonian Issa Hayatou, president of the CAF, also became acting president of FIFA on 08/10/2015, after the Swiss Joseph Blatter was suspended for 90 days. The election of the new president of FIFA will take place during an extraordinary FIFA Congress held in Zurich (SUI), on 26/02/2016.

Along with his duties as acting president of FIFA, Issa Hayatou has retained the presidency of the African Confederation. "I wanted to give way to my first vice-president (of the CAF), however the Executive Committee refused saying that the time period was too short," he said in an interview with the Cameroon daily the Cameroon Tribune. He added…