Africa Women’s Day : Lydia Nsekera, unique female president of a football federation in Africa – Portrait –

No woman before she has occupied an important position in football …

Lydia Nsekera is the president of the Burundian football federation.

Daughter of a club president in Burundi, Lydia Nsekera (45) has never played football, but she has always contributed to the development of the discipline in their country.

Her career

Owner of several female soccer clubs in Bujumbura, Lydia Nsekera was vice-president of the Women’s Football Committee in Burundi. With the support of FIFA, she launched the first ever national championship in women’s football in the country. In 2001, she chaired the commission competitions federation.

In 2004, Lydia Nsekera was elected president of the FFB during an early election. Nsekera is the first woman to hold this position in the history of African football.

Lydia Nsekera to FIFA

 The Burundian is also the first female member of the FIFA Executive Committee. She was coopted May 21, 2012 for one year.

Fifa has endorsed his election at its 62nd meeting on May 25, 2012 in Budapest (Hungary). “The FIFA Executive Committee is a crucial body of world football. I will participate with other members, we will work together. I see myself as a member of the family. In my mind, football is for everyone. What interests me is to help the development of football in general. Of course I also represents women’s football and this is important, I think, to have a woman in a governing body, but above all I represent the family of football. Football is the universal simply, “said Nsekera on fifa.com following his appointment by Fifa.

 


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