{"id":18369,"date":"2022-04-24T14:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president"},"modified":"2022-04-24T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T14:31:31","slug":"drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","title":{"rendered":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated after the first round of voting at Saturday\u2019s elective congress.<\/p>\n

The former Chelsea star polled only 21 votes in a three-way race, with the two other candidates, Yacine Idriss Diallo (59) and Sory Diabate (50) polling more than double his tally. Diallo won a second round to decide the presidency of the federation.<\/p>\n

Drogba\u2019s candidacy had been disputed last year when he first attempted to stand for election but did not receive the required support from clubs and other interest groups, such as the players\u2019 union and coaches\u2019 association, whose nominations he needed to get on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Fifa then stepped in to dissolve the federation, putting the control of Ivorian football under a \u2018normalisation committee\u2019 while the statutes and electoral code were rewritten.<\/p>\n

It allowed Drogba, 44, to stand but while he received much public encouragement, he garnered little support inside the Ivorian football community.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week he was accused of pulling out of a live television debate with the other two candidates hours before it was due to be aired on television, according to a statement released by the state broadcaster. The debate went ahead without him.<\/p>\n

The Ivory Coast hosts next year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated after the first round of voting at Saturday\u2019s elective congress. The former Chelsea star polled only 21 votes in a three-way race, with the two other candidates, Yacine Idriss Diallo (59) and Sory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-18369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nDrogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mozambique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"731\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mozambique\",\"Mozambique\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\",\"name\":\"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president - Mozambique\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":731,\"caption\":\"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/\",\"name\":\"Mozambique\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president - Mozambique","description":"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president","og_description":"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","og_site_name":"Mozambique","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":731,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president","datePublished":"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president"},"wordCount":239,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Mozambique","Mozambique"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president","name":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president - Mozambique","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg","datePublished":"2022-04-24T14:21:14+00:00","dateModified":"2022-04-24T14:31:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Didier Drogba lost a controversial bid to become president of the Ivory Coast Football Federation when he was eliminated ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/sites\/64\/2022\/04\/img-62655f2aa4692.jpg","width":1000,"height":731,"caption":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drogba-loses-bid-to-become-ivorian-federation-president#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Drogba loses bid to become Ivorian federation president"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/","name":"Mozambique","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}