{"id":6584,"date":"2021-03-17T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T21:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2021-03-17T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:04:59","slug":"patrice-motsepe-wants-africa-to-rule-the-football-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/patrice-motsepe-wants-africa-to-rule-the-football-world","title":{"rendered":"Patrice Motsepe wants Africa to rule the football world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>CAPE TOWN &#8211; Newly elected Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has outlined his ambitious plans for an African team to win the Fifa World Cup in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Motsepe held the stage as supremo of African football yesterday when he addressed a media conference in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plan is for an African team to win the World Cup. We (CAF) want in the next four years an African country to win the World Cup,\u201d said Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: Africa must win World Cup soon, says new CAF boss Patrice Motsepe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the World Cup, we must win and be respected. All African teams must compete and do well globally. We can succeed, and we will succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next nine to 12 months, I will visit our 54 member countries. I will also have two more meetings this year with all the presidents of CAF member associations. I see in the past, they only met once a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will talk about the urgent steps we need to take to improve the game on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: Afcon to continue to be played every two years, says new CAF boss Patrice Motsepe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe (CAF officials) must see that African football is globally competitive, and self-sustaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe said people should not refrain from thinking big and should always be optimistic. He pointed to his optimism in his youth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stop being pessimistic. We must recognise our failures and fix them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was at university with my (future) wife, I used to say to her that one day I will own a soccer club,\u201d said Mamelodi Sundowns FC owner Motsepe, who has made a name for himself as a business mogul and mining tycoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must remember that time I didn\u2019t even have five cents in my pocket. I had no money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI should tell you, I made money by buying disused mines and mines that had been closed down. While studying in America, I researched how to make disused mines work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to read up extensively and then make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that he would step down in four years if CAF did not progress during his reign as president.<\/p>\n<p>Since he now also serves as a Fifa vice-president, he has no plans to run for the Fifa presidency in the future. \u201cThis period of leadership will be judged not by my election manifesto but by results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResults breed success. We must score goals and win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to be president of an organisation that four years from now has not made practical and tangible progress. It is not going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can assure you that I have no intentions of running for the Fifa presidency, not at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that (current Fifa chief Giovanni) Infantino is doing a great job. He must be supported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before he was appointed CAF president, Motsepe had to sever administrative ties with his club Mamelodi Sundowns, who won the CAF Champions League in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He is, therefore, au fait with CAF prize money and payments from continental competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will increase sponsorship for Afcon (the African Cup of Nations) and the Champions League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to take my own money to give Sundowns when they won the Champions League. The money was Ok, but not so Ok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need financing for the whole of the continent. We must get the private sector to sponsor African football. We must increase sponsorship significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motsepe said he would turn to Premier Soccer League chairman Irvin Khosa to help resolve the issue of acquiring TV broadcast rights for CAF matches. \u201cHe (Khosa) has been exceptional in negotiating TV rights. We will use his skills,\u201d said Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: Patrice Motsepe has broken the mould, says Danny Jordaan<\/p>\n<p>Conference host Danny Jordaan, the president of the South African Football Association, said that under Motsepe\u2019s leadership CAF would revive its financial fortunes and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can expect that solidarity and unity will be the pillars of strength during his reign,\u201d said Jordaan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows how to win trophies as he did with Sundowns. We now look to him to win trophies for Africa on the global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>@Herman_Gibbs<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. CAPE TOWN &#8211; Newly elected Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has outlined his ambitious plans for an African team to win the Fifa World Cup in the future. 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