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Farah Weheliye Addo ? allow kuu naxariiso
Farah Sindiko known as
Africa's iron man
He was the man stand against Sepp Blatter and accused him corruption just to stay the top job , too bad at that time no one listen to Farah addow accept africa, and Sepp Blatter used the media and money against Farah addow and paid lots of money to label the corruption farah him self, Farah used all his power and all African members back him include many African presidents to keep his seat. at the end they both kept their seats and there after decades now they see the real Italian mafia currption Sepp Blatters him self.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 846571.stm
BBC Sport Online's Tracie Simpson profiles Caf vice-president Farah Addo, who claims he was offered $100,000 to back Sepp Blatter's bid to become Fifa president in 1998.
CAF vice-president Farah Addo is probably best known for the iron grip he exercises on the fortunes of Africa's referees.
As the powerful head of the Caf refereeing committee, he has been a long-standing fighter for an improved international profile for African referees.
Addo is also a survivor in the ranks of African football having served on the executive committion for 22 years.
He was voted unopposed as the first vice president of the African football body in 2000.
As a member of the Fifa referees committee, he has also been influential in ensuring that the Moroccan Said Belqoba took charge of the last World Cup finals between France and Brazil inn Paris in 1998.
But he has at times been accused of a dictatorial approach to refereeing on the continent and officials who have run foul of him have had their careers promptly ended.
Two of Africa's tops referees, Lucien Bouchardeau, from Niger, and Lim kee Chong, from Mauritius, were suspended by Caf after the World Cup finals in 1998.
The reason given by Addo for Bouchardeau's dismissal was that he had criticised Caf in an interview in France.
Addo was an international referee himself, handling World Cup qualifiers including a famous incident in Lusaka in 1973.
On that occasion Zambian officials insisted on digging up the goals to search for charms allegedly planted by members of the opposing Zairian side.
Addo, who studied in Italy, is a former mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu and owned several hotels in the city.
But he has lived in Cairo since the start of the Somali conflict more than a decade ago.
He is both president of the Somali Football Association as well as the country's Olympic Committee but keeps his office at Caf headquarters in Cairo.
