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30.09.2016 Sports News

Big welcome awaits Nyantakyi on arrival from Egypt today

By ghanasoccernet.com
Big welcome awaits Nyantakyi on arrival from Egypt today
30.09.2016 LISTEN

Ghana FA boss Kwesi Nyantakyi is expected to receive a hero's welcome in his native country after he was voted onto the powerful FIFA Council on Thursday.

CAF vice-president Kabele and Nyantakyi tallied 37 votes and 31 votes respectively to overcome Ahmad (Madagascar), also a member of the CAF Executive Committee who got 30 votes.

Augustin Senghor (Senegal), president of the Senegal Football Federation polled nine.

The duo thus joins CAF President Issa Hayatou (Cameroon), Hani Abo Rida (Egypt), Constant Omari (DR Congo), Tarek Bouchamaoui (Tunisia) and Lydia Nsekera (Burundi) as the Africans on the FIFA Council.

The Ghanaian FA leader is expected to receive a rousing welcome with hundreds of enthusiastic supporters expected to throng the Kotoka International Airport.

Nyantakyi will arrive in the company of his able right hand man George Afriyie, who played a key role in his election success.

Ghana football has been thrown into state of Ecstasy following his elevation to the high office of the world governing body, FIFA.

By Patrick Akoto 

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