{{Burundi FA President Lydia Nsekera has been elected as the first woman to Fifa’s powerful executive committee in the governing body’s 109-year history.}}
Nsekera, 46, will serve a four-year term on the committee after winning the vote at the Fifa congress in Mauritius.
She collected 95 of the 203 votes ahead of Australian Moya Dodd and Sonia Bien-Aime, of Turks and Caicos Islands.
Nsekera said: “I will inspire women to believe they can lead and I will support women in member associations.”
Nsekera, who last year became the first woman to be co-opted to the executive committee, has been head of the Burundi FA since 2004 and was a member of Fifa’s organising committee for the 2008 and 2012 Olympic football tournaments.
A member of the International Olympic Committee, she is also on the independent governance committee set up in 2011 to tackle corruption within Fifa.
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