{"id":602,"date":"2025-10-05T07:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/?p=602"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:33:27","slug":"safa-president-dr-jordaan-appointed-to-fifa-mens-national-teams-competitions-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/safa-president-dr-jordaan-appointed-to-fifa-mens-national-teams-competitions-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"SAFA President Dr Jordaan appointed to FIFA Men\u2019s National Teams Competitions Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-40229\" class=\"post-content container\">\n<p>South African Football Association (SAFA) President Dr Danny Jordaan has been appointed to the FIFA Men\u2019s National Teams Competitions Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The SAFA President is currently attending the 47th Confederation of African Football\u2019s (CAF) Ordinary General Assembly in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, that is to be graced by the continent\u2019s 54 member associations and chaired by President Dr Patrice Motsepe on 6 October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA Men\u2019s National Teams Competitions Committee will be chaired by Paraguay\u2019s Robert Harrison with former Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnick, serving as his Deputy. This Committee is regarded as the most important in FIFA as it oversees all FIFA men\u2019s tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup, FIFA U20 World Cup, FIFA U17 World Cup, Men\u2019s Olympic Football Tournament, FIFA Futsal World Cup, and the FIFA Arab Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jordaan and Pinnick are both Advisors to Dr Motsepe and serve on the FIFA Committee for competitions. The SAFA President served as the CEO of Africa\u2019s only FIFA World Cup in 2010, which has consistently been voted as the best global showpiece ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-footer container\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Football Association (SAFA) President Dr Danny Jordaan has been appointed to the FIFA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}