The news of the international sports movement experienced little respite and downtime during 2013. Elections, candidacies, events, controversies... FrancsJeux sorted out a particularly large lot. And pulled out of the hat the top 10 men, women or institutions who made 2013 for us.
No. 9 – Lydia Nsekera
Its year 2013 FrancsJeux. Saturday May 31, Lydia Nsekera made international football history. She became the first woman in 109 years elected for four years to the FIFA executive committee, during the International Federation congress in Mauritius. A year earlier, this 46-year-old Burundian had already caused a sensation by entering the FIFA “comex”, but through a back door, by being co-opted for a year. Proof that no one is a prophet in their country, Lydia Nsekera was defeated last November for the presidency of the Burundian Football Federation (FBF). In office since 2004, this princess from one of the country's royal families was overtaken by a senator who is a member of the ruling party, Révérien Ndikuriyo. An election considered fair, but with a strong scent of political struggle.
What awaits him in 2014. The FIFA World Cup in Brazil in June and July 2014 should give Lydia Nsekera the media exposure she still lacks outside Africa. The leader of Burundi, also a member of the IOC, intends to take advantage of the next twelve months to advance women's football, fight against racism in sport and combat corruption. For the first of these three “missions”, she will be able to rely on the two other women present on the FIFA executive committee (but only co-opted): the Australian Moya Dodd and the representative of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Sonia Beloved.
