Magogo gets new post in Caf reshuffles

FUFA President Moses Magogo taking oath at Parliament on May 19, 2021 to represent the people of Budiope East in Buyende District as the 11th Parliament Starts. PHOTO/ DAVID LUBOWA

Fufa president Eng Moses Magogo has been moved from heading the Caf Beach Soccer and Futsal committee to deputise Cameroonian Seidou Mbombo Njoya in the Organising Committee of the Africa Nations Championships  (Chan).

Caf announced the recent reshuffles of the members to its standing committees on Tuesday afternoon. 

The appointments followed the body's executive committee's meeting that was chaired by new Caf president Patrice Motsepe and attended by Rwanda president Paul Kagame and Fifa supremo Gianni Infantino on Saturday in Kigali.

The meeting, the first for Motsepe since his election in March, focused  on revamping Caf competitions and appointment of chairpersons and their deputies for the various Caf standing committees.

"Caf has announced a new team that will lead the work of CAF in the standing committees," the body announced. Motsepe proposed the changes to the Caf Emergency Committee who then forwarded the names to the Executive Committee for ratifications. 

Magogo's appointment

"Building on the success of the recent Total Chan 2020 organized in last January-February on Cameroonian soil, the Acting FECAFOOT President Seidou Mbombo Njoya is brought to the head of the committee. FUFA (Uganda) President Mr. Moses Magogo will assist him as vice-president," Caf confirmed Magogo's new appointment. The heads of the standing committees are picked from the executive committee.

Magogo was first co-opted into the continental body's Excom in May 2017 after losing to Djibouti's Suleiman Waberi in the polls for Cecafa representative. 

The position came with a responsibility to chair the Caf Futsal and Beach Soccer committee which he held until last week.

Magogo was successful in his second attempt to represent Cecafa region at the Excom in 2019 when he beat veteran Tanzanian football administrator Leodgar Tenga in the ballot. His tenure expires in 2023.

Sita Sangare, former president Burkina Faso FA, has replaced Magogo in the Futsal and Beach Soccer Committee.