Former President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Issa Hayatou has passed on, multiple sources report.
The veteran Cameroonian football administrator died in Paris on Thursday, August 8, the reports stated.
He was 77.
Hayatou served as the President of the football-governing body of the continent from 1988 to 2017.
He once served as the interim FIFA President after then President Joseph Sepp Blatter was banned from the sport.
Hayatou had run for the presidency in 2002 but lost.
He was in 2008 awarded the Order of the Star of the Volta by then Ghana President John Agyekum Kufuor.
