Al Maghrib Newspaper | After years of Tunisian power in football institutions: Tunisian football is losing its influence in FIFA and CAF.

Tunisian sports figures, especially in the world of football, are among the strongest in the corridors of the Confederation of African Football (CAF)
Where the Tunisian presence has always been associated with the strong presence and a great influence in African football and history is a witness to the Tunisian influence in the strongest sports football structure of “Mama Africa”. Spherical influence on the continent.
Those who envisage the reality of the elections organized in the Egyptian capital, in Cairo, concerning the selection of members of the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football and representatives of the Brown Continent in the FIFA Congress note that the Tunisian absence was not due to the lack of support or to the revocation of actor Tunis in the square of power in African football, which was incapable Electoral “CAF” reflects an electoral failure, but rather clearly reveals the decline in Tunisian influence and its occurrence under the influence of Algerian pressure, as well as clear diplomatic errors that made the price of its options pay.
A large predecessor
Since 1988, the corridors of the Confederation of African Football have been known to the Tunisian presence, as the late Salim Alawo, who was an extraordinary ambassador for Tunisian football, whether in the “CAF” or even “FIFA” the support of “Congress”. Head of the Conflict Chamber of the International Football Association.
The second experience of Tunisian characters in the corridors of the main football structures was with former president of Esperance Salim Shayboub in a long -term experience and was only limited to only 4 years. The foot is the surname, as we mentioned, is Wadih al-Jaree, which won the members of the executive committee of the two structures, in addition to the head of the North African Football Association.
The collapse of Tunisian influence in “Kef”
The Tunisian presence in the corridors of the Confederation of African Football has been among the strongest on the brown continent, but the influence has started to decrease considerably in recent years, because the last presence on behalf of the former president of the Tunisian University Wadih al-Jaree 2023 after having preferred to pass the experience of the international football decision, and therefore Tunisia is absent from the Footbal decision and leave the field The competition for the North African card in the decline of the Tunisian influence, where the withdrawal of the current vice-president of the Tunisian University of Hussein Jennah withdrew from the competition, while Bilal Al -fadili did not obtain the zakat required to participate in the competition, and therefore left the African Football Decision Council.
The Choices and Pressures Were Not Among the Reasons that Imposed the Tunisian Collapse, since the scenes in the African Union note that the tunisian -moroccan relationships is not at it is best, which affected the tunisian presence in light of moroccan influence in the past years and possessing the games of the games of the games of the games of the games The Decision in His Hand in Light of the Strength of the Moroccan University, Fawzi Lakja, Who thing The Train Tunisian Football University Not to vote for his benefit in the previous elections, which is What Strengthened the Tunisian isolation and opened the door to Algeria to extend his influence without little resistance, while Morocco Alliances and to exploit each opportunity to improve its presence, and therefore Tunisia seemed to be deliberately withdrawn from the circle of influence, leaving the place empty in front of its traditional competitors.
Tunisia outside the design of FIFA
The Tunisian Losses at the Continental Level Were not only since the absence of the Laughter in the corridors of the “Caf” definitely Impoes Not Being in the Stronest Football Structure in the World and Talking here About the International Football Association “Fifa”, Which Was a wasness to the presence of tunisian With the Presence of 4 Names that have a weight in the international football association Le Monde.
2023 is the date of the last Tunisian appearance at the Gate of the International Football Association of the Porte de Wadih Al-Jaree, and therefore the Tunisian appearance ends with the strongest spherical structure in the world pending the result of the next elections of the Confederation of African Football, which will be scheduled for the year 2029, which will be the absence of football that is the most important decision soccer.
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2025-03-17 18:15:00