# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/issa-hayatou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:43:42.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/issa-hayatou"
name: "Issa Hayatou"
slug: "issa-hayatou"
description: "Issa Hayatou was a Cameroonian sports executive, athlete, and football administrator best known for serving as the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) between 1988 and 2017. He served as the acting FIFA president until 26 February 2016 as the previous president Sepp Blatter was banned from all football-related activities in 2015 as a part of the that year's FIFA corruption investigation. In 2002, he ran for president of FIFA but was defeated by Blatter. He was also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)."
tagline: "Cameroonian basketball player and football executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Issa_Hayatou_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1946-08-09"
deathDate: "2024-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.6
  momentum:             25
  historical:           22.03992933333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 144
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump