{"id":19692,"date":"2011-02-19T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2011-02-19T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:00:53","slug":"tata-avlessi-withdraws-from-caf-race-to-back-nyantakyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=19692","title":{"rendered":"Tata Avlessi withdraws from Caf race to back Nyantakyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ex-Togo boss Tata Avlessi has withdrawn from next week&#8217;s Caf Executive Committee elections to back rival candidate Kwesi Nyantakyi.\u00a0 <em>(<\/em><\/strong><em>Photo<strong>: <\/strong><\/em><em>Avlessi has withdrawn from the Caf race to back Kwesi Nyantakyi)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avlessi was among the four candidates who applied to contest the position in Wednesday&#8217;s elections in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other two candidates are Anjorin Moucharafou, the Benin FA boss, and ex-Niger federation leader Hima Suley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avlessi says after much consideration he has decided to step out of the race to back the Ghana FA boss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have decided to withdraw from the Caf Executive Committee elections race to give my backing to Nyantakyi,&#8221; said Avlessi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I think he has done extremely well for African football since he has been in charge of the Ghana FA and I know he can translate this to Caf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;That is why I have decided to withdraw from the race and back him to win the post even though the others too are good candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The recent successes in African football have been registered by Ghana at the World Cup last year and the U20 level and that&#8217;s why I have decided to back Nyantakyi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana football has been on the rise since Nyantakyi took over as the Ghana FA chief, leading the country to two impressive World Cups in 2006 and last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghana also won Africa&#8217;s first U20 World Cup title when the Black Satellites beat Brazil two years ago in the final in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The West Africa &#8216;B&#8217; Caf Executive Committee position is vacant following the retirement Sey Memene of Togo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several other positions are up for grabs when the Caf elections are held during the continental government body&#8217;s general assembly is held in Khartoum on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Togo boss Tata Avlessi has withdrawn from next week&#8217;s Caf Executive Committee elections to back rival candidate Kwesi Nyantakyi.\u00a0 (Photo: Avlessi has withdrawn from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[7028],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-tata-avlessi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}