Mohammed bin Hammam
Mohammed bin Hammam | |
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محمد بن همّام | |
President of AFC | |
In office 1 August 2002 – 29 May 2011[1] | |
Vice President | Zhang Jilong |
Preceded by | Ahmad Shah |
Succeeded by | Zhang Jilong[2] (acting) |
Chairman of Qatar Football Association | |
In office 1 February 1992 – 1 February 1996 | |
Preceded by | Rahman Ridzha |
Succeeded by | Mohammed Hashem |
Personal details | |
Born | Mohammed bin Hammam 8 May 1949 Doha, Qatar |
Spouse | Divorced 3 times |
Children | 11 |
Occupation | Football administrator |
Mohammed bin Hammam (
On 23 July 2011, Bin Hammam was banned for life from all FIFA and football-related activities by an action of the FIFA Ethics Committee.[4] Bin Hammam challenged this sanction in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the ban was subsequently annulled on 19 July 2012 due to lack of sufficient evidence.[5] However, just 5 months later in December 2012, FIFA handed bin Hammam a second life ban from football after "conflicts of interest" were identified in his role as president of the AFC.[6]
He was the subject of an
Early life
He was born on 8 May 1949 in Doha, Qatar. His father was a businessman, and his mother was a nurse. He has eleven children. He worked in Qatar's football confederation from 1972 to 1996.
In 1975 he made a company called Kemco. In 1976 he became the president of Al Rayyan and then resigned in 1987. A year after he left, Al Rayyan got relegated to the second division of Qatari Football. He came back and was successful in getting them promoted and in the same season they won (89-90) they won the league for the 6th time. On February 1, 1992, He became the president of the QFA and in that very same year they won their first cup.(Gulf Cup).
Presidency of AFC
In 1996 he joined FIFA and then became president of the AFC.
During his time at the helm, he oversaw the creation of the
In March 2011, he called upon
As well as being the president of the Asian Football Confederation, he was also the chairman of the Fifa Goal Bureau, whose grants provide financial support for member associations across the world. He was also influential in bringing the 2022 FIFA World Cup to his native Qatar.
2011 FIFA presidential election
In an interview with
Following the 10 May 2011 meeting of the CFU, the Bahamas Football Association officially reported allegations of attempted bribery at the meeting to Chuck Blazer a FIFA Executive Committee member and General Secretary of CONCACAF. Blazer initiated an official investigation.[11] As a result of the investigations preliminary findings, Bin Hammam was charged with offering bribes for votes and appeared before FIFA's ethics committee on 29 May. Bin Hammam withdrew from the presidential race the day before the ethics committee meeting, leaving Blatter to run unopposed.[12]
On 29 May 2011, FIFA's ethics committee suspended Bin Hammam and Jack Warner temporarily from all football-related activity pending the outcome of a full inquiry into accusations that they offered financial incentives to members of the Caribbean Football Union.[13] Bin Hammam said that he would appeal against the committee's decision to provisionally ban him from football related activity, saying that "The way these proceedings have been conducted is not compliant with any principles of justice."[14] He also issued a statement calling for his reinstatement as well as responding to the claims in detail.
While the appeals process is ongoing, Zhang Jilong is acting President of the Asian Football Confederation.[15]
On 23 July 2011, Bin Hammam was banned for life from all football activities by a five-member panel of the FIFA Ethics committee chaired by Petrus Damaseb. The committee found that his actions violated the organization' ethics rules after studying the reports of investigators and hearing the testimony of witnesses from the May 2011 meeting who were not available for cross examination by Bin Hammam's legal representatives.[4][16][17] Bin Hammam appealed against his ban, and was eventually rejected by the FIFA Appeal Committee.[18]
Bin Hammam took his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport which heard the appeal on 18–19 April 2012. His lifetime ban was annulled by the court on 19 July 2012.[5][19]
In December 2012, FIFA handed bin Hammam a second life ban from football after "conflicts of interest" were identified in his role as president of the AFC.
Sunday Times exposé
This article is in prose. is available. (November 2015) |
On 1 June 2014 the Sunday Times published leaked emails given to them from a "senior figure inside the sport’s governing body".[20] There were several emails leaked which show that:
- Two days prior to inviting 25 members of African football associations on an all expenses paid junket to Kuala Lumpur, US$200,000 was withdrawn from the Asian Football Confederationaccounts.
- A second junket organised was four months later, guests were encouraged to bring their family and were given $5k spending money
- Swaziland Football Association president Adam Mthehwarequested a $30k payment as his "gratuity will only be paid to me when I reach the age of 55 in 2010"
- Mohammed bin Hammam arranged for the delivery of sixty tickets for matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup (valued at £3,800) to Cameroonian Football Federation President Issa Hayatou
- Fadoul Houssein, president of the Djiboutian Football Federation, emailed him to that he was "sure" bin Hammam would win the[clarification needed] and received $30k to fund "expensive medical treatment" for his association's general secretary.
- Mohammed bin Hammam asked the Sudan Football Association to provide details to make a payment after they claimed to not be able to afford to pay the general assembly
- Gambia Football Association was paid $10k. Kinteh implied that the money was paid in exchange for a vote to become president of FIFA when he signed off the email: "I have every reason to be grateful and indeed my President and Brother I AM !!!!". Kinteh later received $50k for a new carpaid through bin Hammam's daughter's account.
- Mohammed bin Hammam paid Manuel Dende, the Sao Tome FA president $50k, after Dende initially requesting $232k.
- Paid Izetta Wesley, the Liberian FA president, $10k,
- Paid Kalusha Bwalya $50k for his "football association and personal expenditures" on a trip to Doha.
- Paid controlled FIFA's Goal programme and paid $400k to the African FIFA Executive members'Football Associations (Cameroon, Nigeria and Ivory Coast)
- Paid $50k to Namibia Football Association to assist with "second division leagues that went crippled by the prevailing global economic melt down."
- Paid Somali Football Federation $100k through his daughter's account
- Paid CECAFA $200k three days after the World Cup bids had been decided to fund the 2010 CECAFA Cup, a tournament that is played by East African national teams.
- Ganesh Thapa, president of the Nepalese FA, was paid a total of £115,000 from two separate accounts of Bin Hammam's company Kemco, in March and August 2010.[21]
References
- ^ Guardian Staff (1 June 2014). "Rise and fall of Mohammed bin Hammam – timeline". The Guardian.
- ^ "Zhang Jilong will be acting president, says AFC". China Daily.
- ^ [1] Archived 28 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Bin Hammam Banned, The Independent, 24 July 2011, The Independent 24 July 2011
- ^ a b "BBC Sport - Mohamed Bin Hammam wins appeal against Fifa ban". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "BBC Sport - Fifa ban Mohammed Bin Hammam for life after he quits football". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ Ezzedine, Hossam (10 March 2011). "Thailand defeat Palestine on penalties". AFP. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
- ^ Scott, Matt (10 March 2011). "Mohamed bin Hammam set to run against Sepp Blatter for Fifa presidency". The Guardian. London.
- ^ "Mohamed bin Hammam confirms intention to run for Fifa presidency". The Guardian. 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Said & Done". The Guardian. 13 March 2011.
- ^ Bahamian officials alert CONCACAF to bribery allegations Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Bahamas B2bB, 31 May 2011
- ^ "Mohamed bin Hammam withdraws from FIFA presidential race". The Guardian. 29 May 2011.
- ^ "Blatter escapes, Bin Hammam banned". ESPN Soccernet. 29 May 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Bin Hammam to appeal against Fifa suspension". BBC. 30 May 2011.
- ^ Asian Football Association vice-president Zhang Jilong takes the reins from suspended Mohamed bin Hammam, Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2011, The Daily Telegraph, 30 May 2011
- ^ "Ethics Committee bans football officials". FIFA.com. 23 July 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2011.
- ^ Video of Damaseb/Ethics Committee statement on Bin Hamman--FIFA, FIFA Video of bin Hammam Press Conference, 24 July 2011
- ^ "Appeal Committee confirms Ethics Committee decision on Bin Hammam". FIFA.com. 15 September 2011. Archived from the original on 24 September 2011.
- ^ "Bin Hammam wins appeal in FIFA bribery case". 20 July 2012. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013.
- ^ Calvert, Jonathan; Blake, Heidi (1 June 2014). "Plot to buy the World Cup". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
- ^ "UK based newspaper says ANFA prez Thapa received £115,000 from Hammam". Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2014.