COSAFA resolves to back Dr Patrice Motsepe for CAF Presidency

Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA), has resolved to give their support to Dr. Patrice Thlopane Motsepe ahead of the CAF Presidential elections.

The Mamelodi Sundowns President is facing competition from Ivorian football administrator Jacques Anouma, Senegal Football Federation boss Augustin Senghor and Mauritania Football Federation President Ahmed Yahya.

At a meeting of the COSAFA Executive Committee on 27 January 2021, it was unanimously resolved that Dr. Motsepe is the only candidate endorsed by the 14-member regional body to run for the CAF Presidency on 12 March this year in Rabat, Morocco.

The COSAFA Executive reiterated a decision taken in 2017 that the Zone should always support one of its own, in this case, Dr. Motsepe.

In 2017, COSAFA was the first bloc to endorse eventual winner Ahmad Ahmad from Madagascar.

The Executive has now resolved that Member Associates will back Dr. Motsepe for the CAF Presidency.

"We are confident that once we take a unanimous decision to back one of our own, other members who want real change in CAF will join the winning party. In Dr. Motsepe we have a candidate who will usher in a new era for African football," said COSAFA President, Phillip Chiyangwa.